The Treaty of Paris,which ended the Seven Years'War,marked the end of power in North America for?

Question

A Britain

B France

C Spain

D Netherlands

Answer 1

B.

Edit:  The 1763 Treaty of Paris brought to a formal conclusion the Seven Years War, called the French and Indian War in the US.  The major result in North America was that France ceded its territory in Canada to Great Britain, preferring to retain sugar islands in the Caribbean.  This left only Spain and Great Britain with holdings in the present day US.

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The next answerer has given a lovely cut and paste on the NEXT Treaty of Paris, which brought to a conclusion the American Revolution, which actually lasted eight years.

Answer 2

The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, and approved by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784, formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule starting in 1775. The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements;

In April 1782 Benjamin Franklin rejected informal peace overtures from Great Britain for a settlement that would provide the thirteen states with some measure of autonomy within the British empire. Franklin insisted on British recognition of American independence and refused to consider a peace separate from France, America’s staunch ally. Franklin did agree to negotiations with the British for an end to the war. Joined by peace commissioners John Adams and John Jay, Franklin engaged the British in formal negotiations beginning on September 27, 1782. Although Franklin demanded the cessation of Canada to an independent America, he knew that the British Government of Lord Shelburne, opposed to American independence, was unprepared to accept that offer. Two months of hard bargaining resulted in a preliminary articles of peace in which the British accepted American independence and boundaries--a bitter pill to George III--resolved the difficult issues of fishing rights on the Newfoundland banks and prewar debts owed British creditors, promised restitution of property lost during the war by Americans loyal to the British cause, and provided for the evacuation of British forces from the thirteen states. The preliminary articles signed in Paris on November 30, 1782, were only effective when a similar treaty was signed by Britain and France, which French Foreign Minister Vergennes quickly negotiated. France signed preliminary articles of peace with Great Britain on January 20, 1783, which were followed by a formal peace of Paris signed on September 3, 1783.  The illustration above, a copy of a sketch by the studio of Benjamin West, shows the American negotiators of the Peace of Paris.  The sketch remains incomplete because British negotiators chose not to sit for their half of the portrait; it has served as a powerful symbol of the division between Great Britain and its former American colonies.

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