Treaty+of+Paris



media type="file" key="typewriter-1.wav" The Treaty of Paris (1783)

The Treaty of Paris was the document that was signed to end the [|American Revolutionary] war. It was signed into action on the third of September, 1783. It is most famous for being "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries. It is most famous for being "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries. The document was signed in the Hotel d’York by [|John Adams], [|Benjamin Franklin]and John Jay. The Treaty of Paris was [|ratified] on January 14, 1784 by the [|American Congress]of the Confederation in Annapolis, Maryland. To ratify a document means to make it officially valid, or put the document into action. British ratification occurred on April 9, 1784, and the ratified versions were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784. This document was the reason that Great Britain began to recognize the [|United States of America]as an independent nation. In addition to recognizing it as an [|independent nation], Britain also agreed to to [|remove their troops] from America. The [|treaty] also set new borders for the United States including all land from the Great Lakes on the north to Florida on the south, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the [|Mississippi River]. media type="youtube" key="6LU6tQVqXcs" width="337" height="293" Benjamin Franklin is often noted as one of the[| Founding Fathers]of the United States of America. Early on,Franklin earned himself the title of “The First American” because of his indefatigable [|campaigning]. He acted as the first United States [|Ambassador to France]and exemplified the new emerging nation that he had wholeheartedly helped form. [|Walter Isaacson] (a well known biographer) has noted Franklin to be “The most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.” Franklin was dispatched toFranceas commissioner for the United States. Franklin would live there, in [|France] until 1785, in which time he would do much good for the developing USA. In 1778,Franklin helped secure a critical military alliance and in 1783, he helped with the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris.

John Adams was also a key individual in the signing of the Treaty of Paris. During the Revolutionary War, he served in France and [|Holland] in [|diplomat]ic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of [|peace]. Adams, serving as a European congressman, also played a key role in attaining important loans from Amsterdam bankers. In October 1782, he negotiated with the Dutch a treaty of amity and commerce, the first such treaty between the United States and a foreign power following the [|1778 treaty] with France. The house that Adams bought during this stay in [|The Netherlands]became the first American-owned embassy on foreign soil anywhere in the world. Later, Adams' revolutionary credentials secured him two terms as George Washington's vice president and his own election in 1796 as the second president.