For Indigenous communities, the proposed tariffs may also represent an opportunity — thanks to a treaty signed before the war ...

The historical moment happened on Jan. 14, 1784, when the Continental Congress ratified, or approved, the Treaty of Paris, officially establishing the U.S. as an independent and sovereign nation, ...

Americans Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and John Adams had negotiated and signed the treaty on Sept. 3, 1783, as well as British representative David Hartley, according to the National Archives.