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British attack on American sailors that aroused angry demands for war?
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chesapeake affair
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In the Treaty of Ghent the British agreed to stop impressment of American sailors?
FALSE
How did the English justify their right to bored neutral American ships?
The British in the early 1800s "impressed" (took away as crewmen) American sailors who were allegedly British sailors who had deserted. This was one of the direct causes of the War of 1812.
What was the british practice of stopping American ships at sea forcing the sailors to serve in the british navy called?
Impressment
What attacks did the British lead against American forces?
the attacks that the British lead against the American forces is that they seized the American ships and they kidnapped American sailors.
What action contributed to the beginning of the war of 1812?
Impressment of American sailors into the British navy
British attack on American sailors that aroused angry demands of war?
Chesapeake affair
Why were sailors deserting the British Navy. To join the American navy?
Conditions in the Royal Navy were awful, which lead some sailors to desert the British navy and join the American navy. Many American sailors were taken hostage by the British.
Why were sailors deserting the british navy to join the american navy-?
Conditions on American ships were far superior to that of British ships.
British attack on American sailors?
Chesapeake Affair
When England was forcing US sailors to work in the british navy this was called?
Americans were angered by the British practice of impressment which American sailors were forced into the British navy.
What word refers to the British practice of forcing American sailors into service of the British navy?
Impressment is forcing American sailors into joining the British Navy.
British practice of boarding American ships and seizing sailors for service in the British navy?
impressment
British seized sailors from American ships?
Yes and it was called "impressment".
What word refers to the British practice of forcing American sailor into the service of the British navy?
Impressment is forcing American sailors into joining the British Navy.
What was one of the causes of the War of 1812?
The British were seizing American sailors and making them serve in the British Navy.
How did british interfere with U.S. Trade?
.The British interfered with shipping by Impressment - the kidnapping of American sailors to work on British ships.
Why did the british seize American sailors?
In the relatively brief interval between the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, Britain had not fully accepted that America had become an independent nation rather than a British colony, and it seized American sailors in order to impress them (or draft them, as we would say in more modern language) into the British navy, which was always in need of more sailors.
