USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Treaty of Paris (1783 ) had stipulated that the Mississippi would be the western boundary of the United States and that it would be open to Americans for navigation.

Detailed explanation-2: -State of Mississippi Mississippi is bordered on the north by the state of Tennessee, on the east by Alabama, on the south by Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico, and on the west by Louisiana and Arkansas. The state is named for the Mississippi river which forms its western boundary and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, the Mississippi River acted as the western border for the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -The mainland of the United States is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the Pacific Ocean in the west. The country borders Canada in the north and has a 3, 155 km long border to Mexico in the south. The United States shares maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, and Russia (in Alaska).

Detailed explanation-5: -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.