Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763. It was supposed to stop the advancement of the American Colonists over the Appalachian Mountains and into the Ohio River Valley since this land was claimed by the Indians and, during the French and Indian War, the Indians were promised, in exchange for fighting against the French, that the colonists would stay on the Eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose of the Proclamation of 1763 was not only to stabilize relations with Native Americans through regulations of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the Western Frontier, but to organize Great Britain's new North American empire, regulate colonial expansion, and establish government in inherited French Colonies. Some colonists were angry at the Proclamation of 1763 and ignored the boundaries, expanding past the Appalachian Mountains anyway.