USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Following French defeat in the Seven Years’ War, Spain gained control of the territory west of the Mississippi, and the British received the territory to the east of the river. Following the establishment of the United States, the Americans controlled the area east of the Mississippi and north of New Orleans.

Detailed explanation-2: -Since 1762, Spain had owned the territory of Louisiana, which included 828, 000 square miles. The territory made up all or part of fifteen modern U.S. states between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.

Detailed explanation-3: -The area had originally been claimed and controlled by France, which had named it La Louisiane in honor of King Louis XIV in 1682. Spain secretly acquired the territory from France near the end of the Seven Years’ War by the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762).

Detailed explanation-4: -Diplomacy of the French Cession Great Britain officially conceded Spanish ownership of Louisiana in February 1763 in one of the series of treaties ending the French and Indian War. This gesture was a mere formality, for the territory had been in Spanish hands for almost three months.