Developing A Trade System

The Trade and Intercourse Act of 1793 revised and renewed the provisions of its predecessor and gave greater definition to the relationship between the United States and Indian tribes. Emphasizing the principal that native communities were to be treated as sovereign nations, the federal government sought to regulate diplomatic and economic exchange with them. However, while the first two trade acts established a series of rules respecting the rights of individual native communities within a broader trade relationship, it did not establish the mechanisms for that relationship. To achieve this end, the federal government conceived two pieces of legislation that would provide the means through which the trade system could exist.

Washington’s Push

As early as 1793, President George Washington advocated for the creation of a series of government run trade houses, bases through which the federal government could manage trade between the United States and Indian nations. While the federal government crafted the rules governing that trade, Washington urged Congress to put forward a proposal that would ensure that economic relations would be fair and equitable. He also realized that the funds necessary to maintain this trade would be essential and encouraged Congress to make such provisions.

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