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Definitionn. the act of coercing someone into government service
Last update: August 5, 2015
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It did not even gain the abolition of impressment in so many words. [Please select]
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In the provisioning of the army the Confederate Government had recourse to impressment and the arbitrary fixing of prices. [Please select]
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Farmers who were compelled to accept the prices fixed by the impressment commissioners cried out that they were being ruined. [Please select]
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The ruthless impressment of seamen was the most conspicuous provocation, but it was only one of many. [Please select]
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In vain the Government had endeavored to protect its sailors from impressment by means of certificates of birth and citizenship. [Please select]
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--Before 1805 Great Britain confined impressment to the high seas and to her own ports. [Please select]
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It was significant, however, that the President put in the forefront of his catalogue of wrongs the impressment of American sailors on the high seas. [Please select]
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And then, without further formalities, Goulburn stated in blunt and business-like fashion the matters on which they had been instructed: impressment, fisheries, boundaries, the pacification of the Indians, and the demarkation of an Indian territory. [Please select]
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