* 1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U. S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

A political cartoon showing merchants dodging the " Ograbme ", which is ' Embargo ' spelled backwards, 1807.

* March 1 – Embargo Act of 1807 is repealed in the United States ; the Non-Intercourse Act replaces it.

* In the Hainish Cycle, while interaction with cultures is rather free, the Planet of Exile mentions the Law of Cultural Embargo, which states: No Religion or Congruence shall be disseminated, no technique or theory shall be taught, no cultural set or pattern shall be exported, nor shall para-verbal speech be used with any non-Communicant high-intelligence lifeform, or any Colonial Planet, until it be judged by the Area Council with the consent or the Plenum that such a planet be ready for Control or for Membership

The Embargo Act of 1807 is codified at 2 Stat.

A political cartoon showing merchants dodging the " Ograbme ", which is ' Embargo ' spelled backwards.

* 1973 – 1974-The United States is affected by the Arab Oil Embargo ; gasoline prices skyrocket as supplies of gasoline and heating oil are in short supply.

Embargo is a specific type of quotas prohibiting the trade.

Contributors to this are saying that “ the US Embargo Act ” is a main constituent to this because of a lack of medicines and promotes hardships in the home which could lead to domestic violence.

In this 1807 political cartoon opposing Embargo Act of 1807 | Jefferson's Embargo, the form and function of speech balloons is already similar to their modern use

The 917-30 is referred to, erroneously, as " The Can-Am Killer " as it dominated the competition, winning every race but one of the 1973 Can-Am championship, however, the SCCA imposed fuel limitations for all Can-Am races due to the existing Arab Oil Embargo.

Thomas Jefferson's Embargo was not popular with American merchants, and it is said that the only time Fort Edgecomb's cannon were fired was in salute at James Madison's inauguration ( or, less tactfully, to celebrate his lifting of the Embargo ).

Although the New England states rejected the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 – 99, several years later, the state governments of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island threatened to ignore the Embargo Act of 1807 based on the authority of states to stand up to laws deemed by those states to be unconstitutional.

The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars.

Despite its unpopular nature, the Embargo Act did have some limited, unintended benefits, especially as entrepreneurs and workers responded by bringing in fresh capital and labor into New England textile and other manufacturing industries, lessening America's reliance on the British merchants.

The Embargo of 1807 was a series of laws passed by the U. S. Congress 1806 – 1808, during the second term of President Thomas Jefferson.

* The Embargo Act of 1807, passed by the United States Congress in protest against British and French interference in U. S. shipping.

In response to this prohibition, compounded by the Chesapeake Incident, the U. S. Congress passed the Embargo Act of 1807 and eventually Macon's Bill No. 2.

( In reference to the Embargo Act of 1807 :) " It can be likened to curing corns by cutting off the toes.

Philadelphia's maritime trade was interrupted by the Embargo Act of 1807 and then the War of 1812.

The Corporate Average Fuel Economy ( CAFE ) are regulations in the United States, first enacted by the U. S. Congress in 1975, and intended to improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks ( trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles ) sold in the US in the wake of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo.

* Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Cuban Embargo by Saul Landau October 30, 2009

* Keep the Embargo on Cuba by Kim R. Holmes, The Heritage Foundation, June 23, 1995

* The Cuban Embargo: An Interview with Naval Academy Professor Daniel Masterson by History News Network

This idea, known as a self-embargo, was also used by President Jefferson in his Embargo Act of 1807, and was similarly ignored during the Napoleonic wars in Europe.

Jefferson encouraged passage of the Embargo Act in 1807 to maintain American neutrality in the Napoleonic Wars, which was in accordance with France's Continental System against Britain.

Some American vessels traded abroad throughout the Embargo, and smuggling flourished along the Canadian border.

The Embargo, which lasted from December 1807 to March 1809 effectively throttled American overseas trade.

The Nonintercourse Act proved no more effective than the Embargo, and it proved impossible to prevent American vessels from trading with the European belligerents once they had left American ports.

The entire series of events was ridiculed in the press as Dambargo, Mob-Rage, Go-bar -' em or O-grab-me (' Embargo ' spelled backward ); there was a cartoon ridiculing the Act as a snapping turtle, named " O ' grab me ", grabbing at American shipping.

Casino has a very independent development, free from external influences such as Puerto Rican and North American dances partly due to the effect of the Cuban Embargo.

Following his term as Secretary of the Navy, Stoddert's final years witnessed a decline in his fortunes: as Stoddert lost heavily in land speculation, Georgetown declined as a commercial center, and the Embargo and the War of 1812 brought American overseas trade to a halt.

Rifkind was a strong and vocal opponent of the American proposal for " lift and strike " which would have ended the UN Arms Embargo and subjected the Bosnian Serbs to NATO bombing from the air.

Revenue cutters were assigned to enforce the very unpopular Embargo Act of 1807, which outlawed nearly all European trade, import and export, through American ports.

Published in 1808 in protest at the Jeffersonian Embargo Act of 1807, the cartoon depicted a snapping turtle, jaws locked fiercely to an American trader who was attempting to carry a barrel of goods onto a British ship.

Believing that Britain could not rely on other sources of food than the United States, Congress and President Jefferson suspended all U. S. trade with foreign nations in the Embargo Act of 1807, hoping to get the British to end their blockade of the American coast.

The Embargo Act, however, devastated American agricultural exports and weakened American ports while Britain found other sources of food.

He was quick to repeal the Embargo Act, refreshing American seaports.

After the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973 and the 1979 fuel crises, a majority of American FR vehicles ( station wagons, luxury sedans ) were phased out for the FF layout-this trend would spawn the SUV / van conversion market.

Smuggling peaked in 1808 during Jefferson's Embargo, when smugglers illegally moved tens of thousands of barrels of American flour from American territory into New Brunswick.

In 2005, " Liwa ", along with American partner " Occidental Petroleum ", was able to win eight out of fifteen exploration areas in the long awaited EPSA-4 auction, making both " Liwa " and " Occidental Petroleum " two of the first international petroleum companies to be allowed to operate in Libya after the Libyan Embargo was lifted.

Casino has a very independent development, free from external influences such as Puerto Rican and North American dances partly due to the effect of the Cuban Embargo.

Among the many other well known Pro Castro groups who are in favor of the Cuban regime, most prominent of these groups are the Brigada Antonio Maceo, Alianza Martiana, Miami Coalition Against the Embargo of Cuba, Alianza de Trabajadores de la Comunidad Cubana, Cuban American Defense League and Rescate Cultural AfroCubano, to name a few.