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What term describes the British policy of taking American sailors and forcing them to work in British ships?
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∙ 6y ago
its also called impressment .
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∙ 13y ago
Trinity Paul
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∙ 14y agoImpressment
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What was the british practice of stopping American ships at sea forcing the sailors to serve in the british navy called?
Impressment
What was the leading motive for the War of 1812?
impressment of American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British royal navy
What was the practice called where Americans were forced into service with the British navy?
Impressment is the term used to denote the forcing of American sailors into the British navy/
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 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 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.
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 was the british practice of stopping American ships at sea forcing the sailors to serve in the british navy called?
Impressment
What word refers to the British practice of forcing American sailors into the service of the service of the British navy?
Press or press-gang.
What was the leading motive for the War of 1812?
impressment of American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British royal navy
What was the practice called where Americans were forced into service with the British navy?
Impressment is the term used to denote the forcing of American sailors into the British navy/
Why did the US declare war on Britain in the 1812?
The United States declared war on Britain in 1812 because the British were seizing American ships. Britain was trying to stop American from trading with France.
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
Forcing sailors to serve in another navy?
Pressgang was forcing ordinary people in a port onto a boat to be sailors.
