Proclamation of 1763

The Proclamation was declared in October 7 1763, by King George III following Great Britain acquisition after the end of the French and Indian War. In the fall of 1763, the proclamation prohibited the North American colonists from establishing or maintaining settlements west of an imaginary line running down the Appalachian Mountains. The proclamation closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. The King and his council presented the proclamation as a measure to calm the fears of the Indians, who felt that the colonists would drive them from their lands as they expanded west. The proclamation provided that all lands west. This excluded the rich Ohio Valley and all territory from the Ohio to the Mississippi rivers from settlement. Proclamation have constitutional application to all of Canada.In the United States, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 ended with the American Revolutionary War because Great Britain ceded the land in question to the United States in the Treaty of Paris 1783.