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- The British government did not want American colonists crossing the Appalachian Mountains and creating tension with the French and Native Americans there. The solution seemed simple. They issued the
- Royal Proclamation of 1763, which declared the boundaries of the thirteen colonies as the Appalachian Mountains.
- This angered the colonists. They felt the Proclamation was a plot to keep them under the strict control of England and that the British only wanted them east of the mountains so they could keep an eye on them. As a result, colonists rebelled against this law just like they did with the mercantile laws.
- The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. ... In
- the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
- Since there was no specific border, British colonists, unhappy with the overcrowding occurring on the East.
- coast, expanded their settlements into “French” lands, taking over already established areas for their own specific use.
- Most notably, the Proclamation of 1763 banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, infuriating colonists causing them to rebel against the law
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