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Indulgences

History; American history

Redemption certificates pardoning persons from punishment in the afterlife that were being sold by the Roman Catholic church. Martin Luther particularly condemned this practice in his Ninety five ...

Indentured Servitude

History; American history

In an effort to entice English subjects to the colonies, parties would offer legal bonded contracts that would exchange the cost of passage across the Atlantic for up to seven years of labor in ...

Imprisonment for Debt

History; American history

During the early nineteenth century, reformers succeeded in restricting imprisonment of debtors.

Impressment

History; American history

The British practice of seizing seamen from American merchant ships and forcing them to serve in the British navy. Impressment was one of the causes of the War of 1812.

Implied Powers

History; American history

The view that the national govemment's powers are not limited to those stated explicitly in the U. S. Constitution.

Defined by historian Donald Worster as "a social order based on the intensive manipulation of water and its products in an arid setting," it characterized the irrigated societies of the modern West, ...

Hudson Highlands Strategy

History; American history

The British tried to execute this strategy early in the War for American Independence but never successfully implemented it. The idea was to gain control of the Hudson River-Lake Champlain corridor ...