In the John Jay’s speech to Congress on Negotiations with Spain’s Minister Diego de Gardoqui (Document F) says that Spain will not allow the United States to traverse the Mississippi River and also would not allow the United States the “right of deposit” on the island of New Orleans without paying a hefty pension. The reason why Spain did this was because that they knew that the United States wasn’t united so the Spanish saw the United States as thirteen different small countries that would not work together. Also the same problem occurs except not Spain, but Great Britain. In John Jay’s Instructions to the United States Minister to Great Britain (Document D) Jay asks Great Britain to remove all garrisons in the territory of the United States that were British held and to also open ports to the United States in the West Indies. The reason why Britain never left the Northwest Territory was because they controlling the fur trade and making friends with local Native Americans and because the United States did not have a military to enforce this, so they could push the British out. They never gave us open ports in the West Indies because the United States in reality did not have any form of a
In the John Jay’s speech to Congress on Negotiations with Spain’s Minister Diego de Gardoqui (Document F) says that Spain will not allow the United States to traverse the Mississippi River and also would not allow the United States the “right of deposit” on the island of New Orleans without paying a hefty pension. The reason why Spain did this was because that they knew that the United States wasn’t united so the Spanish saw the United States as thirteen different small countries that would not work together. Also the same problem occurs except not Spain, but Great Britain. In John Jay’s Instructions to the United States Minister to Great Britain (Document D) Jay asks Great Britain to remove all garrisons in the territory of the United States that were British held and to also open ports to the United States in the West Indies. The reason why Britain never left the Northwest Territory was because they controlling the fur trade and making friends with local Native Americans and because the United States did not have a military to enforce this, so they could push the British out. They never gave us open ports in the West Indies because the United States in reality did not have any form of a