[Music] hey guys welcome to hippies history I got a barnburner on store for you today that's right it's the Treaty of Amity commas and navigation between his Britannic majesty and the United States of America thank goodness it's only going to say Jay's treaty on the exam so let's see if we can't wrap our heads around the 1795 treaty which is going to regulate relationships between the United States and Great Britain god save the queen all right guys before we get to Jay's treaty of 1795 we're going to do a little bit of context development make sure our heads are in the game a little bit of backdrop and how about that kids so first we should remind ourselves that during Washington's first term the United States is trading with Great Britain and with France we're doing pretty well as a neutral entity here but that's going to be interrupted first in 1792 by z5o to zone and then in 1793 with one of those good old European Wars that's going to break out between Great Britain and friends so in a sense we're going to have to choose and Great Britain is going to force that decision by blockading France that's going to impede our ability to trade with them certainly but they're also capturing American merchant ships hundreds of them and they're impressing US sailors that means they're taking them from their boats and putting them on their boats and making them be part of their Navy and such how dare they so really we're going to have two camps we're going to have the Federalists which you're going to be led by former Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay and they're going to be sided with the big men himself George Washington they're going to be favorable towards Great Britain and then the opposition is going to be led by Madison these are the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans much more favorable to France they believe this is really about ideology about standing up for American values about democracy and freedom and not siding with our former colonial master who they see as aristocratic and elite and monarch driven and they like that very much but there's a couple of other issues that are going to frame this out it's not just kind of the trade issue we want to at least the Federalists want to wrap up some other issues that are still burning a hole in the bed and number one that would be resolution of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 you see Great Britain was supposed to dodge those forts they were supposed to get out of the forts get out of the forks what are you doing in the forts but because of numerous reasons they didn't get out of the forts so we have British soldiers still in American soil I'm in Fort Niagara and a sway go in Detroit and Ohio so that's going to be an issue that we want resolved we also would love to open up some trading channels with the British West Indies that would do good for American merchants and we also have issues with boundaries between the United States and Canada we'd like to hammer that out we also believe that the British Red Devils are supplying weapons to Native Americans in the American Northwest and that ain't so good that ain't good at all so there are a number of issues on the table the south they also threw on to the teapot can I say that throw on to the teapot that makes no sense but they want some Momo they want some money for what they see is confiscated property as loyalist during the American Revolution took slaves to the British West Indies and they don't think that's cool so they want some money on the table as well now in terms of the British they're at war with friends their number one obligation is to serve themselves they want the Americans on their side at least when it comes to trading and they certainly don't want the Americans to have the ability to trade with friends so they're probably going into the negotiations in terms of having a little bit of a weaker position they want it bad they want it more but certainly Washington and Hamilton who devised the plan John Jay who's the chief negotiator they want to strike a deal as well so now they're in London and now they strike a deal and now we're going to tell you about the deal kiss there you go God's safe [Music] so we got a deal boys and this is basically the framework of the deal number one it's noteworthy because it's really the first time that two international powers are going to start international arbitration and most of the financial issues were sent to arbitration where the United States came out ahead we gained about twelve million dollars back in the day from Great Britain for losses in terms of the merchant ships that they confiscated and we ended up paying about six hundred thousand pounds to Great Britain for pre 1775 debts that were owed now the British agreed to vacate their fort which they did in June of 1796 but the most important attribute is that both nations are going to grant each other favourable nation trade status so we're going to be all good trading with Great Britain and then with us and we're going to bend to the British maritime policies when it comes to friends so we're not going to be trading with France we're going to be trading with Great Britain now in terms of the Native Americans they agree that they shouldn't be doing that they're going to supply them anymore in the West Indies they're going to give those limited access to trade but the most important part is that we are siding with them and they got a trade deal with the United States now what we didn't get is we didn't get them to stop and pressing our soldiers on the high seas the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans are going to really exploit this and we also didn't deal with that southern issue of the southerners wanting compensation for their loss a property from loyalties that went to West Indies and brought slaves but that's going to be a thorn in the side also for the Jeffersonian Republicans because you have to remember for the most part they are southern based party so that's the framework of the deal compensation is dealt with in an international arbitration setting we're going to have a most favorable trade status with Great Britain we're going to open up the West Indies a little bit they're going to vacate their forts we're going to bow to them in terms of France and their war and trade and this is going to be a 10-year treaty so we got it for 10 years now we're going to talk about what it all means especially since a treaty isn't done until it hits the sentence so we have a battle on our hands getting a two-thirds majority in the Senate is a huge deal so really number one we're going to have a huge publicity fight on our hands in terms of public opinion Federalist newspaper is going up against Democratic Republican newspapers and really it is going to cement the first party system if anything is going to push these guys into camps it's going to be our foreign policy so the Democratic Republicans oppose this they were led by Madison they come up with their own ideas which was basically to be hostile to Great Britain to start a war with them in a sense that's how strongly they believed we should stick to our ideals we should stick with France they're the ones that had the revolution we need to be on their side but they're going to lose this fight they're going to lose the fight for a number of reasons but the number one reason is Georgie having George Washington side with the Federalists are going to sway a lot of senators to vote for this bad boy and they had not one vote to spare it was that close in the United States Senate and again the Democratic Republicans are really pushing this fight around the idea that we shouldn't be supporting a monarch we shouldn't be supporting our former colonial master they're trying to really raise awareness of what's going out in the northwest in terms of the British supplying weapons to Native Americans and also what's going on the high seas that the British earned pressing our sailors and we're going to make a deal with them that's just ludicrous and after the treaty finally passed Madison he's trying to scream that it should go to the House of Representatives because it's their duty to regulate commerce it becomes a huge issue in the 1796 election which is going to allow the Federalists to sweep into power with John Adams and then later down the road when Thomas Jefferson finally gets his hands on the reins of power and the treaty ends he's not going to renegotiate it and it's really going to lead directly into the war of 1812 so if we want to say one important thing what's the takeaway I think the takeaway is that Jay's treaty really kind of pushed the war of 1812 off for a good couple decades and it really allowed the United States to strengthen itself not only economically but militarily as we get ready for that conflict we kind of put it on the back burner let's put it that way so there you go guys we hope that you understand 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