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Besides acknowledging independence, which territory did the peace settlement grant the 13 states?
ATerritory north into lower Canada
BTerritory west to the Mississippi
CTerritory south into the Floridas
DTerritory west to the Pacific coast
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Territory west to the Mississippi
1. Peace negotiations opened in April 1782 and ran through November.
2. The preliminary treaties were not to take effect until France concluded peace with Great Britain.
3. They were signed as final and definitive in 1783.
4. The settlement acknowledged the independence, freedom and sovereignty of the 13 states.
5. It granted them the much coveted territory running west to the Mississippi.
6. It also set the northern boundary of the nation nearly as it runs now, so no grant of Canada was made.
7. The Floridas lay outside the settlement with the states, and the Pacific was far beyond the claim.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section COLONIES GAIN VICTORY AND FREEDOM_
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