10 Facts About Jay Treaty

Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and as Jay's Treaty, was a 1794 treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, and facilitated ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which began in 1792.

The Jay Treaty was designed by Alexander Hamilton and supported by President George Washington.

Jay Treaty was "surprisingly generous" in allowing Americans to trade with Great Britain on a most-favored-nation basis.

Jay Treaty was unsuccessful in negotiating an end to the impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, which later became a key issue leading to the War of 1812.

Jay Treaty was a reasonable give-and-take compromise of the issues between the two countries.

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Jay Treaty was one of the major catalysts for the advent of the First Party System in the United States by further dividing the two major political factions within the country.

Jay Treaty was brutally criticized in Democratic-Republican areas of the country like his home state of Virginia.

Jay Treaty kept the Federalist minister, Rufus King, in London to negotiate a successful resolution to outstanding issues regarding cash payments and boundaries.

Jay Treaty secretly financed and ordered newspapers to personally attack Washington with accusations of mental illness and treason.

Jay Treaty speculates that a "more astute negotiator than the Chief Justice" would have gotten better terms than he did.