NBCT Early Adolescence (EA) Social Studies – History Component 1 Practice Test

Ending the American Revolution and establishing the United States as a sovereign nation comes through a peace agreement that settles the fighting and recognizes independence. The correct choice refers to the Treaty of Paris signed in 1783, which the United States and Great Britain concluded to end the war and formally acknowledge the new nation. Beyond declaring independence, it set boundaries for the United States, roughly from the Atlantic eastward to the Mississippi River and from the Canadian north to Florida in the south, and it addressed issues like fishing rights and the handling of debts and loyalist claims. This moment sits between the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which announced the separation, and the later drafting and adoption of the Constitution in the late 1780s. So, 1783 is the year the war ended and independence was officially recognized.