MAKE IT STOP (Stopping Commerce with Embargoes, Takeovers and Other Methods)- THE ARK OF COMMERCE

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In our series on American commerce, a look at three instances of when U.S. commerce was stopped, for a variety of reasons. The embargo of 1807 is an important part of the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, not often examined in detailed compared to other events. It brought serious economic problems, but was held up by Jefferson as an experiment by a peaceful power. We also examine his Treasury Secretary Gallatin, who had to implement the plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.6	A nation like a person has to have a certain inner drive in order to succeed. In economic affairs, that inner drive is called the competitive spirit. On January 29th, 1786, Thomas Jefferson, United States Minister to France, received a request to his office from a Genevaan family.
1:54.1	Can he find their son, Albert?
1:58.0	The young man went off to America to make his fortune and have a little fun.
2:03.7	He had been in Boston, did a stint in New York, was in Virginia,
2:09.0	and last they heard, he was in the backwoods of Pennsylvania.
2:14.1	And now there are rumors of an Indian raid there.
2:17.4	He hadn't written home.
2:19.4	Was he all right?
2:21.4	It was a heck of a way to be introduced to someone, the young man of the Gallatin family,
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