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The Battle of Yorktown

• The World Turned Upside Down

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The Treaty of Paris1783
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Peace At Last

• Peace talks begin in Paris in 1782
• Representatives from five nations
• United States
• Great Britain
• France
• Spain
• The Netherlands

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The Players

• Each nation had their own interests
• Britain
• Avoid giving Americans full independence
• Protect Loyalists still remaining in America
• France
• America should not become a major power
• Spain
• Interested in acquiring land

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Creation of the Treaty

• Continental Congress sends Representatives
• Ben Franklin
• John Jay
• John Adams
• Americans feared the French and Spanish would
  bargain with British at the expense of the U.S.
• Americans made peace with the British before full
  negotiations took place.
• Three reps. demanded that Britain recognize full
  American independence before talks begin Britain
  agrees.

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Provisions of Treaty

• Confirmed independence of U.S.
• Boundaries set from Great Lakes on the North to
  the Mississippi River on the West to Florida on
  the South. No access to the Gulf of Mexico
• No further persecution of Loyalists and
  restitution for confiscated property
  "recommended" to states.
• No reference to ending slave trade, an original
  goal of the Americans

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Effects of the Treaty of Paris

• British Recognized Independence, but gave U.S.
  little respect
• British did not attempt to protect land of Native
  American allies
• Britain did not specify when they would evacuate
  their American forts
• State governments did not follow through on
• Recovery of Loyalist property
• Pay back of debt owed to Britain