On January 14, 1784, the United States Congress officially ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War. The fighting had largely stopped months earlier, but this moment—quiet, procedural, and ink-heavy—was when independence became settled fact rather than hopeful claim.

The treaty recognized the United States as a sovereign nation, established its borders, and marked Britain’s acceptance of a political reality it had spent eight years resisting. For the former colonies, the work ahead was daunting: debts, diplomacy, governance, and the uneasy task of turning revolution into a functioning country.

History often remembers wars for their battles. But nations are usually born in rooms like this one—where arguments slow, pens scratch, and the future depends not on force, but on agreement.

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The TTC Team

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