How did the president Jefferson attempt to get European powers to honor American neutrality and to stop the british policy of impressment?

Thomas Jefferson believed he could keep the United States neutral in the war between Great Britain and France by passing an Embargo Act. This action effectively stopped American ships from doing business in any foreign ports. France and England saw the ruse for what it was and immediately became retaliatory. Special laws were enacted in both countries forbidding trade with neutral countries and both of them had a field day raiding US merchant ships.