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 * //PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE//**

media type="youtube" key="N20z49bR_tk" height="340" width="560" Treaty of Paris Once the fighting was over, the British and Americans sat down to discuss a peace treaty. The treaty of paris was signed between Britain and America on Spetember,3 1783. These are the four things that the americans and the british agreed on.The first thing was that the british recognized that america was its own land.The second one was the establishment of American boundaries between the Atlantic on the east to the west, and from the 49th parallel and Great Lakes on the north to the 31st parallel on the south or everything east of the Mississippi except the Floridas.The recognition of American fishing rights along then newfoundland banks a point sought by the New England interests.The pledge of the Continental Congress to "earnestly recommend" to the states that they settle property issues with the provison insisted upon by the British.Amid the hoopla and self-congratulation at the end of the war, one sobering fact slowly dawned on the American consciousness. The victorious nation had accumulated a massive debt – more than $11 million in national debt debt and state debts of more and state debts of more than $65 million. The war's cost significantly impacted later events.