Choose the answers that correctly identify events that occurred in the years after the ratification of the Treaty of Paris of 1783.

Question

A Jay’s Treaty was ratified.
B The White House was burned to the ground by British troops.
C British General Cornwallis surrenders at the Battle of Yorktown.
D George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States.
E The Articles of Confederation was ratified and established as the governing document of the United States.

Answer 1

The events that occurred in the years after the ratification of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 are:

A. Jay’s Treaty was ratified. (Ratified in 1795) B. The White House was burned to the ground by British troops. (Occurred in 1814 during the War of 1812) D. George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States. (Inaugurated in 1789) E. The Articles of Confederation was ratified and established as the governing document of the United States. (Ratified in 1781)

Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown (C) actually took place in 1781, before the ratification of the Treaty of Paris.

Therefore, the correct answers are A, B, D, and E.