“Free, sovereign and independent”. Quoted from the textbook, these were the words that Great Britain used to recognize the United States after achieving victory in the Revolutionary War. The first taste of freedom the United States got was the Paris Peace Treaty. On November 30, 1782, the Peace of Paris was signed by Great Britain, the United States, France, Spain, and the Netherlands, thus agreeing to end the Revolutionary War. This treaty allowed the new nation's northern border to extend west from the St. Croix River past the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River as far north as New Orleans; furthermore, with other triumphs. Although the United States struggled greatly during the Revolutionary War, it achieved freedom and independence; granting them the right to act on their own and start building a nation. Initially, I believe that freedom has always been something important to America. For example, the famous quote “give me freedom or give me death”. This expresses how important freedom is to Americans. Without freedom and freedom, the United States would never have had the courage to leave King George for its own taste of freedom. The meaning of freedom for America has changed over the years of America. The original definition of Freedom is “the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior or political opinions”. This definition has been expressed in many ways in America, as well as in freedom. Famously known as the land of the free, the current definition of freedom means "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wishes without hindrance or restriction." Both of these words have been displayed tremendously in the United States, this is what defines us to be who we are