impressment
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Implied powers, 212 Impressment of seamen, 194 Indentured servants, 13.
From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)
Impressment was not abandoned until many years afterwards, and then not through treaty stipulation but because the United States had a navy and could resist aggression on the seas.
From Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism by Ford, Henry Jones
South Carolina has set an example in the prices of supplies for the army, under the Impressment Act, fixed by the Commissioners.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
Impressment, im-pres′ment, n. the act of impressing or seizing for service, esp. in the navy.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Impressment was not mentioned, but it was never again resorted to by Great Britain upon American ships.
From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass
Vocabulary lists containing impressment
Chapter 9: The Federalist Era
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The Early Republic, Lessons 4–6
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Chapter 7: Life in the Young Republic, Lessons 3–5
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