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What economic challenges did Jefferson face? What was the response to these challenges and why?

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Jefferson dealt with two major challenges to US authority: piracy along the Barbary Coast of North Africa, and British impressiveness, which resulted in Jefferson instating a mass embargo of European goods, the Embargo Act of 1807.

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