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Article: Proclamation of 1763
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PROCLAMATION OF 1763
The British government intended the Proclamation of 1763 partly as a war measure and partly as a means of administering the new territory taken from France under the terms of the Treaty of Paris. It had two main provisions that affected the colonists. First, the British government drew a line along the watershed of the Appalachian Mountains
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the point at which waters run downhill either to the Atlantic Ocean in the east or to the Mississippi River drainage system in the west
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separating colonial territory from that of the Native Americans. All lands west of the line were reserved exclusively for Indians, and any settlers living in Indian territory were ...