USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps. The related term press gang refers specifically to impressment practices in Great Britain’s Royal Navy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Words related to impressment lottery, selection, allotment, assignment, greetings, induction, levy, recruiting, registration, call of duty, call-up, roll call, selective service.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. im·press·ment im-ˈpres-mənt. Synonyms of impressment. : the act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service.

Detailed explanation-4: -To kidnap is to steal a person, or to hold someone as a prisoner until a ransom is paid.