For America's 250th anniversary, which treaty recognized the United States as independent from Great Britain?

The Treaty of Paris (1783) recognized the United States as independent from Great Britain.

Representatives of Great Britain and the United States signed the treaty in Paris on September 3, 1783. It formally ended the American Revolutionary War and acknowledged the former Thirteen Colonies as free, sovereign, and independent states.

The agreement also established broad boundaries for the new nation, granted American fishermen rights in waters near Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and addressed debts, property, prisoners of war, and Loyalists. The United States gained territory east of the Mississippi River, north of Spanish Florida, and south of British Canada.

The treaty is distinct from the 1783 preliminary peace agreement and from the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 decades later. The U.S. Congress of the Confederation ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784, in Annapolis, Maryland.