On this day in 1795, President George Washington signs the Jay (or “Jay’s”) Treaty with Great Britain.
This treaty, known officially as the “Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty; and The United States of America” attempted to diffuse the tensions between England and the United States that had risen to renewed heights since the end of the Revolutionary War. The U.S. government objected to English military posts along America’s northern and western borders and Britain’s violation of American neutrality in 1794 when the Royal Navy seized American ships in the West Indies during England’s war with France. The treaty, written and negotiated by Supreme Court Chief Justice (and Washington appointee) John Jay, was signed by Britain’s King George III on November 19, 1794 in London. However, after Jay returned home with news of the treaty’s signing, Washington, now in his second term, encountered fierce Congressional opposition to the treaty; by 1795, its ratification was uncertain.
Leading the opposition to the treaty were two future presidents: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. At the time, Jefferson was in between political positions: he had just completed a term as Washington’s secretary of state from 1789 to 1793 and had not yet become John Adams’ vice president. Fellow Virginian James Madison was a member of the House of Representatives. Jefferson, Madison and other opponents feared the treaty gave too many concessions to the British. They argued that Jay’s negotiations actually weakened American trade rights and complained that it committed the U.S. to paying pre-revolutionary debts to English merchants. Washington himself was not completely satisfied with the treaty, but considered preventing another war with America’s former colonial master a priority.
Ultimately, the treaty was approved by Congress on August 14, 1795, with exactly the two-thirds majority it needed to pass; Washington signed the treaty four days later. Washington and Jay may have won the legislative battle and averted war temporarily, but the conflict at home highlighted a deepening division between those of different political ideologies in Washington, D.C. Jefferson and Madison mistrusted Washington’s attachment to maintaining friendly relations with England over revolutionary France, who would have welcomed the U.S. as a partner in an expanded war against England.
Answer:
Polk wanted California and its magnificent San Francisco Bay as the American gateway to trade with China and other Asian nations. Polk was worried that other nations, such as England or France, might take California if the United States did not act.
Explanation:
Answer:
the causes of the French Revolution were several among which the following stand out
An inflexible monarchical regime against the context of a changing world, and that, after several attempts to adopt measures aimed at tackling the political and economic crisis
The nobility and the high clergy clinging to their feudal privileges, which blocked all structural reforms that were attempted from the Court
The development of a bourgeois class born centuries ago, which had achieved great power in the economic field and now began to advocate the politician. Her wealth and culture had raised her to the top spot in society, a position that was in contradiction with the existence of privileged estates, nobility and clergy.
The urban and peasantry popular classes, impoverished by rising prices - particularly cereals and bread, the continuous increase of stately and royal taxes and rights.
the expansion of new illustrated ideas;
The financial bankruptcy caused by the vices of the tax system, the misperception and inequality of taxes, the expenses of the Court, the costs of wars, and the serious financial problems caused by military support for the War of Independence of the United States. This military intervention would become a double-edged sword, because, despite France winning the war against Great Britain and thus recovering from the previous defeat in the Seven Years' War, the estate went bankrupt and with a significant foreign debt. The fiscal problems of the monarchy, together with the example of democracy of the new emancipated State precipitated the events.
Explanation:
Schools in the United States started integrating in the 1950's as a direct result of the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court ruling.
Answer:
Zia ud Din Barani
Explanation:
Tarikh-i Firoz Shahi Hardcover – September 10, 2015. Tarikh-i Firoz Shahi is the finest specimen of Indo-Persian historiography produced during the Sultanate period in India.
