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What Made Jay's Treaty Controversial

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What made Jay's Treaty controversial?


A) It ended the British practice of impressments by promising to look the other way at Britain's.
B) It arranged for withdrawal of British troops from American soil, and granted access to British West Indies markets but only by bargaining away US rights to load cargoes of sugar, molasses and coffee from the French during wartime.
C) It reopened the French West Indies trade to American ships but closed lucrative markets in the British West Indies.
D) It won recognition of the thirty-first parallel as the United States' southern boundary but required the U.S. to relinquish its rights to Louisiana.
E) It settled the issue of compensation for slaves taken during the Revolution at less than half their actual value.

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