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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...
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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.
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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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—was...
9a. The Royal Proclamation of 1763. 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.
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.
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.
