<P> Historians have often commented that the treaty was very generous to the United States in terms of greatly enlarged boundaries . Historians such as Alvord, Harlow, and Ritcheson have emphasized that British generosity was based on a statesmanlike vision of close economic ties between Britain and the United States . The concession of the vast trans - Appalachian region was designed to facilitate the growth of the American population and create lucrative markets for British merchants, without any military or administrative costs to Britain . The point was the United States would become a major trading partner . As the French foreign minister Vergennes later put it, "The English buy peace rather than make it". Vermont was included within the boundaries because the state of New York insisted that Vermont was a part of New York, although Vermont was then under a government that considered Vermont not to be a part of the United States . </P> <P> Privileges that the Americans had received from Britain automatically when they had colonial status (including protection from pirates in the Mediterranean Sea; see: the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War) were withdrawn . Individual states ignored federal recommendations, under Article 5, to restore confiscated Loyalist property, and also ignored Article 6 (e.g., by confiscating Loyalist property for "unpaid debts"). Some, notably Virginia, also defied Article 4 and maintained laws against payment of debts to British creditors . The British often ignored the provision of Article 7 about removal of slaves . </P> <P> The actual geography of North America turned out not to match the details used in the treaty . The Treaty specified a southern boundary for the United States, but the separate Anglo - Spanish agreement did not specify a northern boundary for Florida, and the Spanish government assumed that the boundary was the same as in the 1763 agreement by which they had first given their territory in Florida to Britain . While that West Florida Controversy continued, Spain used its new control of Florida to block American access to the Mississippi, in defiance of Article 8 . The treaty stated that the boundary of the United States extended from the "most northwesternmost point" of the Lake of the Woods (now partly in Minnesota, partly in Manitoba, and partly in Ontario) directly westward until it reached the Mississippi River . But in fact that Mississippi does not extend that far northward; the line going west from the Lake of the Woods never intersects the river . </P> <P> Great Britain violated the treaty stipulation that they should relinquish control of forts in United States territory "with all convenient speed ." British troops remained stationed at six forts in the Great Lakes region, plus two at the north end of Lake Champlain . The British also built an additional fort in present day Ohio in 1794, during the Northwest Indian War . They found justification for these actions in the unstable and extremely tense situation that existed in the area following the war, in the failure of the United States government to fulfill commitments made to compensate loyalists for their losses, and in the British need for time to liquidate various assets in the region . All posts were relinquished peacefully through diplomatic means as a result of the 1794 Jay Treaty . They were: </P>

After the revolutionary war american trade with britian