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Proclamation of 1763, Proclamation by Britain at the end of the French and Indian War that prohibited settlement by whites on Indian territory. It established a British-administered reservation from west of the Appalachians and south of Hudson Bay to the Floridas and ordered white settlers to withdraw.
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. The Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the French and Indian War, granted Britain a great deal of valuable North American land.
The proclamation declared two important things. First, it said that no colony or individual person could purchase or take lands from Indians; only the British Crown could do that, by treaty. Second, it established the line of “permanent white settlement” in North America at the crest of the Appalachian Mountains.
Why did many colonists consider the Proclamation to be unfair? Explain why the king and his ministers thought the Proclamation to be a reasonable law. How did the Proclamation of 1763 contribute to a “souring of the relationship” between Great Britain and her subjects in the thirteen colonies?
Oct 7, 2013 · How the Proclamation of 1763 Sparked the American Revolution. It's been overshadowed by other events, but King George III’s decree—which banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachians ...
Proclamation of 1763. The end of the French and Indian War in 1763 was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, for it removed several ominous barriers and opened up a host of new opportunities for the colonists. The French had effectively hemmed in the British settlers and had, from the perspective of the settlers, played the "Indians ...
Royal Proclamation of 1763. Wikimedia Commons. After the end of the Seven Years' War, the victorious Britain gained a large swath of French territory in North America. Now burdened with the task of governing such a large area, King George III issued this proclamation to forbid European settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and reserved ...
