Territorial changes from the Treaty of Paris.
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Peace of Paris and the Treaty of 1763, was a treaty ending the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and the alliance of France and Spain. The treaty was signed on 10 February 1763.
Sobel describes the treaty as "a humiliating peace" imposed by the British on their defeated foes. In fact, the Prime Minister, Lord Bute, was anxious to end the war, and as a result returned most of the territories conquered by the British, including Guadeloupe, Martinique, Cuba, the Philippines, and French outposts in India. Most of Great Britain's territorial acquisitions from the treaty were in North America: Canada, Louisiana, and Florida.
Under the terms of the treaty, the British acquired all of Canada except the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and all of Louisiana east of the Mississippi River except New Orleans. Article IV of the treaty guaranteed religious liberty to Roman Catholics in Canada, and Article VII did the same in Louisiana.
There was considerable opposition to the treaty in Great Britain. Former Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder warned that the terms of the treaty would only lead to further conflicts once France and Spain had time to rebuild. "The peace was insecure," he would later say, "because it restored the enemy to her former greatness. The peace was inadequate, because the places gained were no equivalent for the places surrendered." Members of Parliament known to oppose the treaty were dismissed from offices, until it was certain to pass. When the treaty was approved in Great Britain, it passed 319 votes to 65 opposed.