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“The next thing I knew, I was taken off the vessel and forced into military service by those Brits!”

To what cause of the War of 1812 is this American sailor referring?

A. England’s government supplying weapons to the Natives

B. Great Britain’s policy of salutary neglect

C. The British blockade of the Atlantic coast

D. England’s policy of impressment

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I’m pretty sure the answer is B
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It is D because impressment was the forced joining of Americans to the British military and the man describes being taken into military service by the British
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