Citizens of Convenience by Lawrence B. A. Hatter

The Americans were granted limited rights to trade with British colonies in the Caribbean in exchange for some limits on the American export of cotton. This set a precedent used by other nations. The parties agreed that disputes over wartime debts and the American–Canadian boundary were to be sent to arbitration-one of the first major uses of arbitration in modern diplomatic history. The British were retaliating for the United States reneging on Articles 4 and 6 of the 1783 treaty American state courts impeded the collection of debts owed British creditors and upheld the continued confiscation of Loyalist estates in spite of an explicit understanding that the prosecutions would be immediately discontinued. This included the withdrawal of British Army units from forts in the Northwest Territory that it had refused to relinquish under the Paris Peace Treaty. The Treaty was negotiated by John Jay and gained several of the primary American goals. It inflamed the new growth of two opposing parties in every state, the pro-Treaty Federalists and the anti-Treaty Jeffersonian Republicans. It angered France and bitterly divided Americans. The Treaty was designed by Alexander Hamilton and supported by President George Washington. The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also 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 (which ended the American Revolutionary War), 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.

To relieve post-war tension between Britain and the United States

Citizens of Convenience by Lawrence B. A. Hatter