Proclamation of 1763
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In the 1700’s it was frontier and remote areas. They were busy with settling the east coast and the English government in 1763 passed a proclamation that the lands west were not to be settled trying to make peace with the Native Americans
forbid colonists from settling the west of the Appalachian mountains.
the british army could not protect settlers from native americans
The colonists opposed the Proclamation of 1763 because it prevented them from settling in the west when most of them already settled in the west. So this mad them mad because that had to move back in to the 13 colonies. That is why the colonists opposed the proclamation of 1763.
The Proclamation of 1763 created a line territorial line west of the 13 colonies. This line was intended to prevent the colonists from moving into the land used by the Native Americans. The colonists were angry about the Proclamation of 1763 because they felt they had the right to move onto this land if they wished to do so.