History of the United States I / Unit 8 USH1 1072 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Impressment Left Unresolved
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The idea
Jay's Treaty did not address impressment, the British navy's practice of forcing American sailors to work and fight on British warships.
In practice
An omission that stays open and unresolved for the next eighteen years.
Where people slip
This single unresolved grievance becomes the leading cause of the war taught in entry 1103.
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