Also, the Embargo Act was considerable in that it convinced Jefferson of the U.S.’s need to follow economic self-sufficiency. Hofstadter had remarked that the period of the Embargo Act “was the seedtime of American industrialization”(52), and -that was true- during the period of the Embargo Act, Jefferson had become proponent of manufacturing in the realization that the only way to economic self-sufficiency was through industrialization and manufacturing. It is ironic, in the end of Jefferson’s party, it ended up embracing numerous Federalist policies, such as banking, tariffs, military and the manufacturing (53) in order to continue the U.S.’s presence. Eventually, the events that had been occurred in foreign policy were a consequence of the
