Jay's Treaty

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• Jay's Treaty

  • Jay's Treaty intended to relieve post-war tensions between Britain and the United States and represented a Federalist strategy to avoid war.
  • The purpose of Jay's Treaty, ratified on February 29, 1796, was to relieve post-war tensions between Great Britain and the United States.
  • Washington submitted Jay's Treaty to the U.S.
  • Traditionally considered a "diplomatic failure" or a "bad bargain" by most scholars, Jay's Treaty has never seemed to overcome its initial unpopularity.
  • Describe the role Jay's Treaty played in the political disputes of the early republic

• Diplomacy

  • The Jay–Gardoqui Treaty with Spain in 1789 also showed weakness in foreign policy.
  • In this treaty—which was never ratified due to its immense unpopularity—the United States was to give up rights to use the Mississippi River for 30 years, which would have economically strangled the settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • This incomplete British implementation of the Treaty of Paris (1783) was superseded by the implementation of Jay's Treaty in 1795 under the new U.S.

• Pinckney's Treaty

  • Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed on October 27, 1795, and established formal intentions of amity between the United States and Spain.
  • Thomas Pinckney negotiated the treaty for the United States, and Don Manuel de Godoy represented Spain.
  • Rather, their growing fear of an alliance between the United States and the British—prompted by the signing of Jay's Treaty in 1794—spurred Spain to negotiate with the United States.
  • Unlike the contemporaneous Jay's Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty was quite popular with both Federalists and Democratic-Republicans, as well as with the American public.
  • Analyze the political circumstances leading up to and following the signing of the Pinckney's Treaty

• Foreign and Domestic Crises

  • In response, President Washington sent John Jay to negotiate a treaty with England.
  • Jay's Treaty, signed in 1794, guaranteed the removal of British forces from forts in the Northwest Territories, committed disputes over wartime debts to arbitration, gave the United States limited trading rights with British colonies, and restricted U.S. cotton exports.
  • Although Jay's Treaty helped prevent war with England, it provoked an outcry among American citizens who saw it as a concession to England.
  • The Senate narrowly ratified Jay's Treaty, but the debate it sparked solidified the Federalist and Democratic-Republican factions into full-scale political parties.
  • Jay's Treaty also angered France, which saw it as a violation of the Franco-American mutual defense treaty of 1778.

• The Quasi-War

  • During the American Revolution, the United States and France signed the Treaty of Alliance, in which both nations pledged mutual military support against Britain.
  • However, the U.S. government also negotiated Jay's Treaty with Britain, which—in addition to clarifying several disputes that remained unaddressed in the Treaty of Paris—included several economic agreements that gave Britain special trading status with the United States.
  • The Proclamation of Neutrality and Jay's Treaty both outraged France, and the French navy began seizing American ships and harassing American traders in Caribbean and European ports.
  • The United States had offered France many of the same provisions found in Jay's Treaty with Britain, but France reacted by deporting Marshall and Pinckney—both key Federalists—back to the United States and refusing any proposal that would involve these two delegates.
  • American commissioners then negotiated the Treaty of Mortefontaine with Napoleon's ministers in September 1800, which ended all hostilities.

• Harassment by Britain

  • One major cause of conflict that remained unresolved by Jay's Treaty in 1794 was the British practice of impressment, whereby American sailors were taken at sea and forced to fight on British warships.
  • Jay's Treaty, which went into effect in 1795, addressed many issues left unresolved after the American Revolution and helped avert a renewed conflict.

• Across the Atlantic: France and Britain

  • The Treaty of Alliance was a defense treaty formed in the American Revolution that promised French support to the United States.
  • The Treaty of Alliance with France was a defensive agreement between France and the United States, as shown in .
  • The treaty outlined the terms and conditions of this military alliance and established requirements for the signing of future peace treaties to end hostilities with the British.
  • After signing the treaty, French supplies of arms, ammunition, and uniforms proved vital for the Continental Army.
  • The Jay Treaty (also known as Jay's Treaty, The British Treaty, and the Treaty of London of 1794), was officially known as the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America.

• Washington's Farewell

  • Washington pointed to two treaties acquired by his administration—Jay's Treaty and Pinckney's Treaty—as models of the benefits of unity.
  • These treaties established the borders of the United States' southern and western territories and secured the rights of western farmers to ship goods along the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
  • Specifically, Washington argued that these treaties were proof that a united federal government would act in the best interests of the American people and could only gain fair concessions from foreign countries as a united nation.
  • Drawing on the bitter divide between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans that occurred during the conflict between Britain and France, Washington defended his Proclamation of Neutrality, which kept the United States from entering the revolutionary wars on the side of France, despite the Treaty of Alliance of the 1770s.
  • Washington argued that permanent entanglements, such as the Treaty of Alliance, created unreasonable attachments to—and animosities toward—nations that eventually would render governments impotent in determining the course of their own foreign policies.

• The Northwest Territory

  • In the Treaty of Paris (1783), Great Britain nominally ceded control of the Northwest Territory (which was primarily occupied by various American Indian tribes) to the United States.
  • In reality, however, the British kept forts and enacted policies there that supported the American Indians living in those territories until Jay's Treaty in 1794.
  • Following the battle, the Western Confederacy and the United States signed the Treaty of Greenville on August 3, 1795, to end the Northwest Indian War.
  • The treaty also established what became known as the "Greenville Treaty Line," which was for several years a boundary between American Indian territory and lands open to European American invaders; however, the latter frequently disregarded the treaty line as they continued to encroach on native lands west of the boundary.
  • This depiction of the treaty negotiations may have be painted by one of Anthony Wayne's officers, circa 1785.

• Origins of the War of 1812

  • One major cause was the British practice of impressment, whereby American sailors were taken at sea and forced to fight on British warships; this issue was left unresolved by Jay’s Treaty in 1794.
  • Although the British had technically ceded the area to the United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 (a treaty that ignored any rights of the American Indians already living there), it was in the best interest of the British to prevent further American growth.