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what law blocked settlement past the appalachian mountains

by Devon Pacocha DDS Published 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago

The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.

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