USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -New Orleans is founded. France cedes New Orleans and Louisiana west of the Mississippi to Spain. France cedes territories east of the Mississippi and north of New Orleans to Britain. Treaty of Paris gives newly independent United States free access to the Mississippi.

Detailed explanation-2: -Two crucial provisions of the treaty were British recognition of U.S. independence and the delineation of boundaries that would allow for American western expansion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Northwest Territory Perhaps as important as U.S. independence, the Treaty of Paris also established generous boundaries for the new nation. As part of the agreement, the British ceded a vast area known as the Northwest Territory to the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Paris granted the United States title to an extraordinarily vast expanse of land. The fledgling nation stretched from the sparsely settled Atlantic Coast in the east, to the Mississippi River in the west; from the Great Lakes in the north, to near the Gulf of Mexico in the south.

Detailed explanation-5: -George Washington’s copy of the Preliminary Articles of Peace between the United States and Great Britain, which were signed in Paris on November 30, 1782.