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Bancroft Treaties



The Bancroft treaties, also called the Bancroft conventions, were a series of agreements between the United States and other countries that 1) recognized the right of each party's nationals to become naturalized citizens of the other; and 2) defined circumstances in which naturalized persons were legally presumed to have abandoned their new citizenship and resumed their old one. Named for historian and diplomat George Bancroft (1800-1891), who negotiated the first of these agreements with Prussia, then known officially as the North German Confederation, the Bancroft treaties were mainly intended to prevent individuals from using naturalization as a way to avoid military service and other legal obligations in their native countries.



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