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| | Jay's Treaty: Submission or Indpendence? |
 | | To the French, the treaty did not sound like neutrality, but an alliance with Britain and a violation of former Franco-American treaties, and America shifted from being on the verge of war with Britain to soon being on the verge of war with France. |
 | | France, in response to Jay's Treaty, began to enforce this agreement: "American vessels seldom sailed with such detailed papers, and in 1795 France seized more than 300 American merchant ships, which in turn were sold as prizes in French courts" (Mariners' Museum). |
 | | Shortly after passage of Jay's treaty, Spain and the U.S. negotiated Pinckney's treaty (or the Treaty of San Lorenzo Real), which gave America free navigation of the Mississippi, a port of deposit at New Orleans, and ended Spanish claims of the Old Southwest (what would eventually become Alabama and Mississippi) (Harper, 148). |
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