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Describe the ten provisions of the Treaty of Paris.
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1. The thirteen colonies should be free and states of their own. And that all the heirs and successors of the British crown shall give up all their claims of property, and territorial right to the government.

​2. Establish the boundaries between British North America and the United States.

3. To grant fishing rights to fisherman from the states in Grand Banks. So they can fish off the coast of Newfoundland and the Guild of St. Laurence.

4. To see that lawful, contracted debts would be fully paid to creditors on either sides.

5. That the congress and confederation will advise state legislatures to recognize that rightful land owners who's property was confiscated pay for lands confiscated from loyalists.

​6. That the US would prevent ­future confiscations of the land of ­Loyalists.

​7. War prisoners would be released from both sides and all property left by British army and in the US would be ********* (including slaves)

8. Both great Britain and the US would be each given perpetual access to the Mississippi River.

9. That terrorists captured by America would be released without compensation.

​10. That the ratification of the treaty was to happen in six months from the signing, even though it actually took 8 months.

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The 10 provisions of the Treaty of Paris included 1: The king acknowledged the United States to be free, sovereign and and independent states. He promised to treat them as such and that his heirs would treat them as such as well, 2: To prevent future dispute about where is America and what belongs to the British, boundaries were marked, set, and described in the treaty, 3: It is agreed that the United States citizens may fish in the seas where they please, for whatever kind of fish they please, in British and United States territory, 4: Neither Britain nor the United States would do anything to prevent the collection of debt by lawful creditors in either country, 5: British subjects and loyalists who had property confiscated during the war would have it returned or be reimbursed for it, 6: No one would be persecuted or suffer anymore loss due to the war or the side he had chosen. Any currently in prison over such charges would be immediately released, 7: All prisoners of war on both sides were to be released. The king promised to withdraw all his armies from America without taking anything from the American citizens. and all property taken during the war would be returned, 8: The navigation of the Mississippi river would be free to both the British and the Americans “for ever," 9: If any land were taken by the British or the Americans before the treaty reached the United States, such holdings would be returned without problem and without compensation, and lastly 10: Both parties promised to ratify the treaty within six months, or sooner if possible. The terms of the Treaty of Paris was that the British agreed to recognize American independence as far west as the Mississippi River. The Americans also agreed to honor debts owed to British merchants from before the war and to stop persecuting British Loyalists.

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