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Oct 27, 2009 · The Proclamation of 1763, issued by the British crown, set territorial limits on where European colonists could settle in America. Its purpose: to appease Indigenous people, who had...
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Proclamation of 1763, proclamation declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in North America, mainly intended to conciliate the Native Americans by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. Learn more about the Proclamation of 1763 in this article.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris (1763), which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain.
Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. This measure advanced British governmental efforts to discourage westward expansion in the decade before the American Revolution, an objective motivated by a number of ...
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was a decree issued by King George III of Great Britain, defining new restrictions on colonial settlement in America. In this article, we’ve explained the effects of the Proclamation of 1763.
Oct 24, 2019 · What was the Proclamation of 1763? This Proclamation was a decree from Parliament, issued by King George III on October 7, 1763, that forbade the settlement of territory west of the Appalachian Mountains — a range of peaks that stretches from Maine in the Northeast all the way to Alabama and Georgia in the Southeast.
After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.
