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Date Posted: 21:12:15 09/29/02 Sun
Author: Bezzzath
Subject: CH 6 Jay's Treaty & Pinckney's Treaty (Some of the missing section in ch 6 are below)

A. Hamilton wanted a commissioner to England, he didn’t trust the state of department to reach a settlement with Britan
1. Convinced George Washington
2. John Jay appointed( was the chief of justice of US supreme court)
a. Instructed to get money for British assaults on American shipping
b. Instructed to demand that British troops leave frontier posts
c. Instructed to negotiate a new commercial treaty
B. Jay's Treaty
1. Signed 1794
2. Treaty failed to achieve goals
3. Did settle conflict between nations and prevent a probable war between England and America
4. Gained American sovereignty over the entire Northwest
5. Produced a satisfactory commercial agreement with Britain
a. America needed trade from Britain
6. When treaty was made public, Jay was cursed by people all over the country for failing to reach all of the goals of the treaty
7. Many people opposed the treaty
a. Most Republicans
b. Some Federalists encouraged by France
c. American minister to France, James Monroe
d. Secretary of State: Edmund Randolph
C. Pinckney's Treaty
1. Signed 1795
2. Made easy by Spain's fear of an alliance between England and America to challenge Spanish claims
3. Thomas Pinckney had no trouble as negotiator to Spain in gaining almost everything that America had wanted from Spain in the past decade
a. Right of the Americans to navigate the Mississippi to its mouth and to New Orleans to reload oceangoing ships
b. Agreed to make the northern boundary of Florida where America had always insisted it was
i. along the 31st parallel
c. Required Spanish to stop natives from raiding into America from Florida

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