Hamilton pushed for The Bank of the United States, a large standing Army raised by the President (Congress was to raise and support armies,) a Department of Navy, funding and excise taxes, and, in foreign policy, a neutrality that was sympathetic to British interest to the detriment of France. ... Southerners saw the taxes to support a new treasury loan favoring "pro-British merchants in the commercial cities," and unfairly paid by landowners in the South. ... The English "Order of Council" and the French "Milan Decree" wreaked havoc with America's shipping and led to Jay's Treaty of...

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In 1795, Washington and Chief Justice John Jay made a treaty with England that favored English imports and guaranteed payment on pre-revolutionary debts. ... Madison and Jefferson attempted to negate Jay's Treaty, but they were unable to find the votes. ... The thought of a new nation that was independent of British control united the separate states under one nation that was unified. ...

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