After 900 American ships were seized by Napoleon's Continental System (1806) and the British Orders in Council (1807), the U.S. released the Embargo Act of 1807, which prohibited American ships from sailing to any foreign ports and closed American ports to British ships. Some Americans were unhappy with the halting of overseas export/import, contributing to a meeting in 1814.
The Embargo Act was replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809, which lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. This was then replaced in 1810 by Macon's Bill Number 2. This lifted all embargoes but offered that if either France or Great Britain were to cease their interference with American shipping, the United States would reinstate an embargo on the other nation. Napoleon, seeing an opportunity to make trouble for Great Britain, promised to leave American ships alone, and the United States reinstated the embargo with Great Britain and moved closer to declaring war.
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The responses of China and Japan to Western Imperialism were similar in several significant respects. Each nation, for centuries, successfully held back Western incursions into their territories and economies. Both China and Japan were ultimately able to maintain this policy of isolationism until the 19th century, when each finally succumbed to external pressures, though to differing degrees
Strengths of the Athens was that it had a strong navy, focused a lot on education, it was a direct democracy, and it made a lot of advances in art, science, and technology.
Weaknesses of Athens include that they were arrogant about their power, tried to get more land than they could control, and had bad foreign policies with other societies.
Strengths of Sparta include how strong its military and army was, it was self-disciplined, very healthy, did not focus on the wealth or luxury, women had a lot of rights (as compared to other societies at the time), and were very organized in their government.
Weaknesses of Sparta include bad trading with others and the little advantages they contributed to science and art as they were constantly in military mode.
