Saratoga Springs

The Spark The conflict that sparked the American Revolution was the Treaty of Paris that was written in 1763 to officially state that Britain had won the French and Indian War. This treaty awarded Great Britain the backcountry and the Ohio River Valley. The Treaty of Paris made the British government feel that they were entitled to the land east of the Mississippi River, not the colonists, once pioneers, who had endured the ninety-one-year war. The point where the fight for independence…