for a total embargo (or ban) on American trading. Unfortunately, this "Embargo of 1807" failed to force the European powers to respect our rights, and severely harmed our own economy.throwing thousands of merchants, shippers, and sailors out of work. When James Madison became president in 1809, he found himself facing the same problem: How could we force Britain and France to respect our rights on the high seas without being forced to war? Finally, after three years of failed diplomatic efforts, and a blatant violation of Jay's Treaty with supplying arms to Natives to prevent expansion Madison asked Congress to declare war on Great Britain. Document 1 In November 1811, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. House of Representatives reported on our nation's growing conflict with France and Britain. In the following excerpt, the report explains our complaints against Britain. (From Annals of the Congress of the United States, Twelfth Congress.) "To sum up, in a word, the great causes of complaint against Great Britain, your committee need only say, that the United States, as a sovereign and independent Power, claim the right to use the ocean which is the common and acknowledged highway of nations, for the purposes of transporting, in their own vessels, the products of their own soil and the acquisitions of their own industry. __ Great Britain, in defiance of this incontestable [clear and certain) right, captures every American vessel bound to or returning from, a port where her commerce is not favored enslaves our seamen, and in spite of our (complaints and protests) perseveres in these aggressions." According to this congressional report, what was America's major complaint against Great Britain? ANSWER IN TWO COMPI ETE SENTENCES