Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. It is loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire which was later used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union in the 1940s.
The answers are: 1. Britain interfered with U.S. trade. 3. The British imposed Embargo Act of 1807 hurt the American economy. 4. Great Britain attacked U.S. ports. 5. Britain attacked U.S. ports.