For starters, he cut down taxes on companies. He believed that the companies could then increase salaries and create new job opportunities. People could also join the market easier and open their own companies since the taxes were smaller. With more companies in the market, the competition was greater, the prices and the products were better. Or at least that's how it was supposed to work in theory.
During the 1790s, France believed that the United States was losing its neutrality because of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
