Sentence:  When in 1816 an act of Congress <WSD>forced</WSD> the foreign firm out of the United States , its British born employees , now become American citizens - Joseph Rolette , Joseph Renville and Alexis Bailly - continued in the fur business . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"