Base your answers to questions 5 and 6 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
When the British and French both seized American vessels if they
touched at the ports of the other, Jefferson decided to test one of his favorite
doctrines that war was both intolerable and unnecessary, and that the best
weapon against both powers lay in economic sanctions. He got Congress to
pass a series of five Embargo Acts, stringently forbidding U.S. trade with
Britain and France not only overseas but even along the Canadian border....
Source: Max Lerner, Wounded Titans: American Presidents and the Perils of Power,
Arcade Publishing, 1996
5 According to this passage, what was President
Thomas Jefferson's primary objective in proposing
the Embargo Acts?
(1) to raise revenue
(2) to limit the slave trade
(3) to avoid war
(4) to increase trade
6 What was one result of the failure of the Emba
Acts?
(1) Louisiana Purchase
(2) War of 1812
(3) Missouri Compromise
(4) Gibbons v. Ogden decision