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Foreign and Western Affairs (Problems with Britain (Jay's Treaty…
Foreign and Western Affairs
Impact of French Revolution
Approval in America
Tree of liberty
Jefferson
Determined political allegiance
Remained an ally of France
75% British trade
Citizen Genet
Jacobin Club
Bonds uniting Americans
Embarrassment
Overreached himself
Threatened to appeal his cause directly to American people
Popular with Republicans
Problems with Britain
Had not relinquished military posts
Encouraging Native American attacks
Disregard maritime rights of neutral America
Maintained blockade
250 ships seized
Almost bill passed for boycott of trade
Jay's Treaty
Britain uncompromising
Secretly informed by Hamilton
Fell short of what had been instructed
Britain promised to evacuate northwest forts
Agreed to submit American claims for compensation
Limited access to British west Indies
In return
Refer pre - revolutionary debts to mixed commissions
Britain gained favoured nation treatment in commerce
French privateers would not be outfitted in American ports
Uproar in USA
Republicans denounced the agreement
Burned in effigy
Impeachment demands
Ratified with 2/3
Opposed by Randolph
Washington
Hesitated for two months
Sensible compromise
Relations with Spain
Jay's Treaty induced Spain to soften attitudes
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Granted USA free use of the Mississippi
Accepted the American claim to 31st parallel to Florida
Restrain Native Americans from attacking frontier
Western developments
Native American policy 1789 - 93
High priority
Several sovereign homelands
Treaty of New York
Restored Creek land
Proclamation forbidding private or state encroachments
Proclaim v sustain
Georgia
15 million to Yazoo Companies
North
Misgivings
Series of military expeditions
Defied conciliation
Could not be enforced
Treaty of Greenville
5000 Native troops
USA acquired right to land of Ohio and Indiana
Western Land policy
Federalists
High land prices
Sale of large land parcels
Profitable
Prevailed
Land Acts of 1796
Doubled price of land
Extended regular surveys
Beyond means of most settlers
Sold 50,000 acres
Whiskey Insurrection
19791 tax bore heavily on frontier farmers
Inadequate transport facilities
Reduced by distillation
Mobs terrorised federal agents
Pittsburgh
6000 men
Solidarity to France
Washington Response
13,000 militia force
Repressed the 'Whiskey Boys'
Amnesty to rebels who signed oath
Alienated frontiersmen