Treaty of Paris (1763)

The Treaty of Paris of 1763 was signed by Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal, to end the Seven Years' War, which in North America was known as the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and the territory east of the Mississippi to Britain, except New Orleans, and Louisiana west of the Mississippi went to Spain, which in turn gave Florida to Britain. France kept the sugar islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique and its trading posts in India, but its position in India was greatly reduced. Britain emerged as the dominant colonial power. The removal of the French threat made the American colonies less dependent on Britain, while the war debt led the British government to impose new taxes, tensions that fed into the American Revolution.

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