<Li> Section 4 removed the warship exemption from applying to privateers or vessels with a letter of marque . </Li> <Li> Section 5 established a fine for foreign ships loading merchandise for export, and allowed for its seizure . </Li> <P> Meanwhile, Jefferson requested authorization from Congress to raise 30,000 troops from the current standing army of 2,800 . Congress refused . With their harbors for the most part unusable in the winter anyway, New England and the north ports of the mid-Atlantic states had paid little notice to the previous embargo acts . That was to change with the spring thaw, and the passing of yet another embargo act . </P> <P> With the coming of the spring, the effect of the previous acts were immediately felt throughout the coastal states, especially in New England . An economic downturn turned into a depression and caused increasing unemployment . Protests occurred up and down the eastern coast . Most merchants and shippers simply ignored the laws . On the Canada--US border, especially in upstate New York and Vermont, the embargo laws were openly flouted . Federal officials believed parts of Maine, such as Passamaquoddy Bay on the border with British - held New Brunswick, were in open rebellion . By March, an increasingly frustrated Jefferson was resolved to enforce the embargo to the letter . </P>

Great britain violated what us policy with the attack on the chesapeake