The Proclamation of 1763

K. Williams, PRES

After the French and Indian War, many people in America moved west to the land

won in the war.

Native Americans did not like that colonists were coming onto the land.

The Native Americans started fighting with the people moving

west.

In the year 1763, there was lots of fighting.

The king in England did not like the fighting. He wanted it to stop.

England made a new law called the Proclamation of 1763.

The law said that Native Americans could have all the land west of the Appalachian Mountains. No one else could go there.

Many of the colonists didn’t like this law.

They were mad the England was telling them what to do.

Some people did not listen to the law.

They moved to the west anyway.

The Proclamation of 1763 was the first thing that made the colonists very angry

at England and the king.

The king was saying: I’m in charge in here!

The colonists were saying: Don’t tell us what to do!