"And that all disputes which might arise in future... may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries, viz: From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia... by a line drawn due north... to the river Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude." — Treaty of Paris, Article II, September 3, 1783
The Mississippi boundary established here most directly intensified which subsequent conflict?
- Acheck_circle
Settler-Native conflict in the Ohio Valley culminating in the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794)
- B
The Whiskey Rebellion in southwestern Pennsylvania
- C
Quasi-War naval engagements with France in the Caribbean
- D
The Genet Affair over French privateering in U.S. ports
Explanation
Britain ceded land it did not effectively control to Native peoples, fueling settler-Native warfare resolved at Fallen Timbers and the Treaty of Greenville. The Whiskey Rebellion concerned excise taxes; the Quasi-War and Genet Affair involved France, not boundary terms.