The Jay Treaty was a treaty between the United States and Britain in the years following the American Revolution . The Jay Treaty , also known as Jay 's Treaty , The British Treaty , and the Treaty of London of 1794 , was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war , resolving some issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783 , which ended the American Revolution , and allowing ten or more years of mostly peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars that had begun in 1793 .