Question

Which of the following is a result of the Treaty of Paris or of the negotiations which led up to it?

France received portions of Canada for their help.
America and France were a little more suspicious of each other.
The states got to keep whatever they confiscated from Loyalists.
The new United States extended all the way out to the Rocky Mountains.

Answer 1

France gave its land east of the Mississippi to England

The Treaty of Paris, in 1793, the British agreed to American independence and promised to remove their armies. Boundaries of the new nation would extend north and west to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, and south to Florida.

John Adams (a member of the peace delegation) saw to it that New Englanders would continue to fish in British waters off the coast of Newfoundland. Benjamin Franklin and John Jay also served as delegates.

When the British raised the question of debts that Americans still owed to British merchants, Franklin pointed out that the British armies had done an equal amount of damage to American property. In the end the treaty only promised that the states would open their courts to British law suits.

The Loyalists presented the stickiest problem of all. Britain demanded that the property taken from the Loyalists (individuals who supported the British during the war) be returned. Franklin informed them that this was impossible, since the states had already sold the property to finance the war. This treaty merely prevented the states from making future seizures.