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Why did American merchants initially prosper from the war between Britain and France? What happened to disrupt this prosperity?

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the British and the french interfered with american shipping
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Answer:The British and the French interfered with American Shipping because they would use the impressment to control who we dealt with. British were especially hard on us as they would kidnap our sailors and make them work for their ships.

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