Treaty of Paris

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• The Treaty of Paris

  • The Treaty of Paris of 1783 ended the American Revolutionary War, granting additional territory to the U.S. and its allies France and Spain.
  • The 10 articles of the Treaty of Paris are as follows.
  • Several of the articles of the Treaty of Paris were violated by all sides in the chaotic aftermath of the war.
  • Spain used its control of Florida to block American access to the Mississippi in defiance of Article 8 of the Treaty of Paris.
  • Examine how the Treaty of Paris reshaped the United States and redefined boundaries in North America.

• The Treaty of Paris

  • The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War and established the new boundaries of the U.S.
  • The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America.
  • The American Congress of the Confederation ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784.
  • Signature page of the Treaty of Paris courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
  • Evaluate how the Treaty of Paris redefined boundaries and the relationship between America and Britain

• Treaty of Paris

  • The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War following British victory over France and Spain.
  • The Treaty of Paris was signed on February 10, 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, to end the French and Indian War, or Seven Year's War.
  • The Treaty of Paris is frequently noted as the point at which France gave Louisiana to Spain.
  • The Treaty of Paris was to give Britain the east side of the Mississippi.
  • This map shows Britain's greatest territorial expansion, which occurred in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris.

• The Peace of Paris

  • The Treaty of Paris, signed 10 February 1763, by Great Britain, France, and Spain, ended the French and Indian War.
  • The Treaty of Paris, also called the Peace of Paris, was signed on February 10, 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and Spain, with Portugal in agreement.
  • The Treaty of Paris is frequently noted as the point at which France gave Louisiana to Spain.
  • The Treaty of Paris took no consideration of Great Britain's battered continental ally, Frederick II of Prussia.
  • The American colonists were disappointed by the protection of Roman Catholicism in the Treaty of Paris because of their own strong Protestant faith.

• Jay's Treaty

  • It was an agreement that is credited with averting war, resolving unaddressed issues from the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and facilitating ten years of relatively peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars .
  • John Jay was sent to Britain—with instructions from Hamilton—to secure compensation for captured American ships; to ensure the British leave the northwest outposts they still occupied (despite the terms of the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which recognized this as American territory); and to gain an agreement for American trade in the West Indies.
  • British troops were still occupying forts on U.S. territory in the Great Lakes region (also known as the Northwest Territory) that were recognized as part of American soil by the Treaty of Paris.
  • The map shows major territorial concessions following the Treaty of Paris.
  • Disputes arising over the failure of British troops to leave some of the territories ceded by the British in the Treaty of Paris, as well as British instigation of conflicts between Native Americans and the newly established United States, ultimately contributed to the need for Jay's Treaty in 1796.

• Pinckney's Treaty

  • Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and the United States defined the boundaries of the Spanish colonies of West and East Florida.
  • Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed on October 27, 1795, and established formal intentions of amity between the United States and Spain.
  • Among other things, the treaty ended the first phase of the West Florida Controversy, a dispute between the two nations over the boundaries of the Spanish colony of West Florida.
  • The Spanish acquired Florida and the southern coast along the Gulf of Mexico in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
  • After the American Revolution, Spain claimed the British border at the day of the Treaty of Paris, while the United States insisted on honoring the old boundary.

• The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was one of several treaties signed between Native Americans and the United States after the American Revolution.
  • The treaty served as a peace treaty between the Iroquois and the Americans, since the Natives had been ignored in the Treaty of Paris.
  • In this treaty, the Iroquois Confederacy ceded all claims to the Ohio territory, a strip of land along the Niagara river, and all land west of the mouth of Buffalo creek.
  • 1786 Treaty of Fort Finney with Shawnee leaders for portions of Ohio
  • 1797 Treaty of Big Tree with the Iroquois for lands in New York State west of the Genesee River

• Across the Atlantic: France and Britain

  • The Treaty of Alliance was a defense treaty formed in the American Revolution that promised French support to the United States.
  • Delegates of King Louis XVI of France and the Second Continental Congress, who represented the United States government at the time, signed the treaty along with The Franco-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris on February 6, 1778, formalizing a Franco-American alliance that would technically remain in effect until 1800.
  • The French monarchy, humiliated by Britain's victory in the Seven Years War, had been planning for a war of revenge since the Treaty of Paris that had ended the conflict in 1763.
  • The Jay Treaty (also known as Jay's Treaty, The British Treaty, and the Treaty of London of 1794), was officially known as the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America.
  • It was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain that was credited for averting war, resolving issues that had not been addressed since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, and facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1815).

• The Fight for the Treaty

  • The key point of disagreement was whether the League of Nations, one of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, would diminish the power of Congress to declare war.
  • One block of Democrats strongly supported the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners at the Paris Peace Conference.
  • The Treaty of Versailles was never ratified by the U.S.
  • Discuss Wilson's attempts to rally the nation in support of the Treaty of Versailles.

• The Paris Peace Conference

  • The Paris Peace Conference determined the terms of peace after World War I between the victorious Allies and defeated Central Powers.
  • Following the Allied victory, President Woodrow Wilson met with his counterparts, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain and Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
  • Congress refused to accept the terms of the conference’s cornerstone work, the Treaty of Versailles.
  • For six months, Paris was effectively the center of a world government as the peacemakers dealt with bankrupt empires and created new countries.
  • The most contentious outcome of the Paris Peace Conference was a punitive peace accord, the Treaty of Versailles, which included a “war-guilt clause” laying blame for the outbreak of war on Germany and, as punishment, weakening its military and required it to pay all war costs of the victorious nations.