Royal Proclamation of 1763 - wikipedia Royal Proclamation of 1763 `` Indian Magna Carta '' redirects here. This term has also been applied to the United States Indian Reorganization Act. The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Library and Archives Canada. A portion of eastern North America ; the 1763 `` proclamation line '' is the border between the red and the pink areas. Part of a series on the Constitution of Canada Constitutional history Bill of Rights ( 1689 ) Act of Settlement ( 1701 ) Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ) Royal Proclamation ( 1763 ) Quebec Act ( 1774 ) Constitutional Act ( 1791 ) Act of Union ( 1840 ) Constitution Act ( 1867 ) Supreme Court Act ( 1875 ) Constitution Act, 1886 British North America Acts ( 1867 -- 1975 ) Statute of Westminster ( 1931 ) Succession to the Throne Act ( 1937 ) Letters Patent ( 1947 ) Canada Act ( 1982 ) Constitution Act ( 1982 ) Document list Amendments Unsuccessful amendments Constitutional law Constitutional debate Patriation Charter of Rights and Freedoms Canadian federalism Law of Canada Canadian Bill of Rights Implied Bill of Rights Canadian Human Rights Act Politics of Canada portal The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain 's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War / Seven Years ' War. It forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve. This proclamation rendered worthless all land grants given by the government to British subjects who fought for the Crown against France. People throughout the various colonies were filled with indignation at having been unjustly shut out of the vast western wilderness and away from its resources. This anger was a foreshadowing of the discontent that would later arise during the American Revolution. The Royal Proclamation continues to be of legal importance to First Nations in Canada. The 1763 proclamation line is similar to the Eastern Continental Divide 's path running northwards from Georgia to the Pennsylvania -- New York border and north - eastwards past the drainage divide on the St. Lawrence Divide from there northwards through New England. Contents 1 Background 2 Provisions 2.1 New colonies 2.2 Native lands 2.2. 1 Proclamation line 3 Legacy 3.1 Indigenous peoples 3.2 United States 3.3 250th anniversary celebrations 4 See also 5 Footnotes 6 Sources 7 Further reading 7.1 Canada 8 External links Background Main article : Great Britain in the Seven Years ' War The Treaty of Paris was the official conclusion to the Seven Years ' War, of which the French and Indian War was the North American theater. Under this treaty, France ceded ownership of all of continental North America east of the Mississippi River, including Quebec, and the rest of Canada to Britain. Spain received all French territory west of the Mississippi. Both Spain and Britain received some French islands in the Caribbean. France kept a few small islands used by fishermen, modern - day Haiti and the rich sugar island of Guadeloupe. Provisions New colonies The Eastern ( orange line ) in the southern areas, and St. Lawrence ( magenta line ) watershed boundaries in the northern areas of this map more - or-less defined almost all of the Royal Proclamation 's western boundaries Besides regulating colonial expansion, the Proclamation of 1763 dealt with the management of inherited French colonies from the French and Indian War. It established government for four areas : Quebec, West Florida, East Florida, and Grenada. Native lands Some Native American peoples -- primarily in the ( Great Lakes region ) -- had a long and close relationship with France, and were dismayed to find that they were now under British sovereignty. They missed the amicable relationship with the French, along with the gifts they bestowed upon them, neither of which they had with the British. Pontiac 's Rebellion ( 1763 -- 66 ), a war launched by a group of natives around the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, was an unsuccessful effort by the western tribes to push the British back. However tribes were able to take over a large number of the forts which commanded the waterways involved in trade within the region and export to Great Britain. The Proclamation of 1763 had been in the works before Pontiac 's Rebellion, but the outbreak of the conflict hastened the process. British officials hoped the proclamation would reconcile American Indians to British rule and help to prevent future hostilities. Proclamation line New borders drawn by the Royal Proclamation of 1763. At the outset, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 defined the jurisdictional limits of the occupied territories of North America. Explaining parts of the Frontier expansion in North America, in Colonial America and especially Canada colony of New France, a diminutive new colony, the Province of Quebec was carved. The territory northeast of the St. John River on the Labrador coast was placed under the Newfoundland Colony. The lands west of Quebec and west of a line running along the crest of the Allegheny mountains became Indian territory, temporarily barred to settlement, to the great disappointment of the land speculators of Virginia and Pennsylvania, who had started the Seven Years ' War to gain these territories. The proclamation created a boundary line ( often called the proclamation line ) between the British colonies on the Atlantic coast and American Indian lands ( called the Indian Reserve ) west of the Appalachian Mountains. The proclamation line was not intended to be a permanent boundary between the colonists and Aboriginal lands, but rather a temporary boundary which could be extended further west in an orderly, lawful manner. It was also not designed as an uncrossable boundary ; people could cross the line, just not settle past it. Its contour was defined by the headwaters that formed the watershed along the Appalachians. All land with rivers that flowed into the Atlantic was designated for the colonial entities, while all the land with rivers that flowed into the Mississippi was reserved for the native Indian population. The proclamation outlawed the private purchase of Native American land, which had often created problems in the past. Instead, all future land purchases were to be made by Crown officials `` at some public Meeting or Assembly of the said Indians ''. Furthermore, British colonials were forbidden to settle on native lands, and colonial officials were forbidden to grant ground or lands without royal approval. The proclamation gave the Crown a monopoly on all future land purchases from American Indians. British colonists and land speculators objected to the proclamation boundary since the British government had already assigned land grants to them. Many settlements already existed beyond the proclamation line, some of which had been temporarily evacuated during Pontiac 's War, and there were many already granted land claims yet to be settled. For example, George Washington and his Virginia soldiers had been granted lands past the boundary. Prominent American colonials joined with the land speculators in Britain to lobby the government to move the line further west. Their demands were met, and the boundary line was adjusted in a series of treaties with the Native Americans. In 1768 the Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the Treaty of Hard Labour, followed in 1770 by the Treaty of Lochaber, opened much of what is now Kentucky and West Virginia to British settlement. A new map was drawn up at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768, that moved the line ( from the green line to the red line on the map ) much further to the west, and gave the lands claimed by the colonists to the British side. Legacy Indigenous peoples in Canada First Nations Inuit Métis History Paleo - Indians Pre-colonization Genetics Residential schools Indian hospitals Conflicts First Nations Inuit Politics Crown and Indigenous peoples Treaty rights Health Policy Numbered Treaties Royal Commission Self - government Indian Act British Columbia Treaty Process Idle No More Missing and murdered Indigenous women Politics Organizations Case law Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada Culture Indigenous cultures Indigenous personalities Country food Music Demographics Indian reserves AB FN Métis Atlantic CA BC MB ON QC SK Territories Pacific Coast Linguistics Indigenous languages Inuit languages Indigenous English Dialects NAPA Aboriginal syllabics Inuit grammar Religions Traditional beliefs Inuit religion Index Index of articles Indigenous First Nations Inuit Métis Stubs Wikiprojects Portal Indigenous Canadian portal WikiProject Indigenous North Americans First Nations Commons Wiktionary Inuit Commons Wiktionary Métis Commons Wiktionary Indigenous peoples Further information on Canadian Aboriginal legacy : The Canadian Crown and Indigenous peoples The Royal Proclamation continued to govern the cession of Indigenous land in British North America, especially Upper Canada and Rupert 's Land. Upper Canada created a platform for treaty making based on the Royal Proclamation. After loyalists moved into land after Britain 's defeat in the American Revolution, the first impetus was created out of necessity. The proclamation forms the basis of land claims of Indigenous peoples in Canada -- First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is thus mentioned in Section 25 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. According to historian Colin Calloway, `` ( settler ) scholars disagree on whether the proclamation recognized or undermined tribal sovereignty ''. The proclamation established the important precedent that the indigenous population had certain rights to the lands they occupied. Some see the Royal Proclamation of 1763 as a `` fundamental document '' for First Nations land claims and self - government. It is `` the first legal recognition by the British Crown of Aboriginal rights '' and imposes a fiduciary duty of care on the Crown. The intent and promises made to the native in the Proclamation have been argued to be of a temporary nature, only meant to appease the Native peoples who were becoming increasingly resentful of `` settler encroachments on their lands '' and were capable of becoming a serious threat to British colonial settlement. Advice given by a merchant to the Board of Trade on August 30, 1764, expressed that The Indians all know we can not be a Match for them in the midst of an extensive woody Country... from whence I infer that if we are determined to possess Our Posts, Trade & ca securely, it can not be done for a Century by any other means than that of purchasing the favour of the numerous Indian inhabitants. Some historians believe that `` the British were trying to convince Native people that there was nothing to fear from the colonists, while at the same time trying to increase political and economic power relative to First Nations and other European powers. '' Others argue that the Royal Proclamation along with the subsequent Treaty of Niagara, provide for an argument that `` discredits the claims of the Crown to exercise sovereignty over First Nations '' and affirms Aboriginal `` powers of self - determination in, among other things, allocating lands. '' United States USA Proclamation of 1763 Silver Medal. Franklin Mint Issue 1970. The influence of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on the coming of the American Revolution has been variously interpreted. Many historians argue that the proclamation ceased to be a major source of tension after 1768, since the aforementioned treaties opened up extensive lands for settlement. Others have argued that colonial resentment of the proclamation contributed to the growing divide between the colonies and the mother country. Some historians argue that even though the boundary was pushed west in subsequent treaties, the British government refused to permit new colonial settlements for fear of instigating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators. Others argue that the Royal Proclamation imposed a fiduciary duty of care on the Crown. George Washington was given 20,000 acres ( 81 km ) of wild land in the Ohio region for his services in the French and Indian War. In 1770, Washington took the lead in securing the rights of him and his old soldiers in the French War, advancing money to pay expenses in behalf of the common cause and using his influence in the proper quarters. In August 1770, it was decided that Washington should personally make a trip to the western region, where he located tracts for himself and military comrades and eventually was granted letters patent for tracts of land there. The lands involved were open to Virginians under terms of the Treaty of Lochaber of 1770, except for the lands located 2 miles south of Fort Pitt, now known as Pittsburgh. In the United States, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 ended with the American Revolutionary War because Great Britain ceded the land in question to the United States in the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ). Afterward, the U.S. government also faced difficulties in preventing frontier violence and eventually adopted policies similar to those of the Royal Proclamation. The first in a series of Indian Intercourse Acts was passed in 1790, prohibiting unregulated trade and travel in Native American lands. In 1823, the U.S. Supreme Court case Johnson v. M'Intosh established that only the U.S. government, and not private individuals, could purchase land from Native Americans. 250th anniversary celebrations In October 2013 the 250th anniversary of the Royal Proclamation was celebrated in Ottawa with a meeting of Indian leaders and Governor - General David Johnston. The Aboriginal movement Idle No More held birthday parties for this monumental document at various locations across Canada. See also Indian removal Indian barrier state Northwest Territory Indian Reserve ( 1763 ) Halifax Treaties Footnotes Jump up ^ Fred Anderson, Crucible of War : The Seven Years ' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 ( 2007 ) ^ Jump up to : Gordon S. Wood, The American Revolution, A History. New York, Modern Library, 2002 ISBN 0 - 8129 - 7041 - 1, p. 22 Jump up ^ W.J. Eccles, France in America, Fitzhrenry & Whiteside Limited 1972, p220 Jump up ^ Jack M. Sosin, Whitehall and the Wilderness ( University of Nebraska Pres. 1961 p. 146 Jump up ^ Harvey Markowitz, American Indians ( 1995 ) p. 633 Jump up ^ Louis De Vorsey, The Indian boundary in the southern colonies, 1763 -- 1775 ( 1966 ) p. 39. Jump up ^ William J Campbell ( 29 April 2015 ). Speculators in Empire : Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 118 -- 20. Jump up ^ Miller, J.R. ( May 2009 ). Compact, Contract, Covenant. University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. p. 10. Jump up ^ Calloway, Scratch of a Pen, 93. Jump up ^ Borrows, Wampum, 155. Jump up ^ Douglas R. Francis, Richard Jones and Donald B. Smith, Origins : Canadian History to Confederation 6th ed. ( Toronto : Nelson Education Ltd., 2009 ), 157. Jump up ^ Francis et al., Origins, 156. Jump up ^ Jack Stagg, Anglo - Indian Relations In North America to 1763 and An Analysis of the Royal Proclamation of 7 October 1763, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Research Branch, 1981, 356. Jump up ^ Borrows, Wampum, 158 -- 159. Jump up ^ Quoted in Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty : The Existing Aboriginal Right of Self - Government in Canada, Bruce Clark. ( Montreal : McGill - Queen 's University Press, 1990 ), 81. Jump up ^ Borrows, `` Wampum, '' 160. Jump up ^ Borrows, Wampum, 164. Jump up ^ Borrows, Wampum, 165. Jump up ^ Woody Holton ( August 1994 ). `` The Ohio Indians and the Coming of the American Revolution in Virginia ''. The Journal of Southern History. 60 ( 3 ) : 453 -- 78. doi : 10.2307 / 2210989. Jump up ^ `` Royal Proclamation of 1763 : Relationships, Rights and Treaties -- Poster ''. Government of Canada. 2013 - 11 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Letter from George Washington to George Mercer dated November 7, 1771, at Williamsburg ''. The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources. p. 68. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Jump up ^ 21 U.S. ( 8 Wheat. ) 543 ( 1823 ) Jump up ^ CBC.ca : `` Royal Proclamation of 1763, Canada 's ' Indian Magna Carta, ' turns 250 '' 6 Oct 2013 Jump up ^ G + M `` Royal Proclamation 's 250th anniversary has First Nations reflecting on their rights '' 7 October 2013 Sources Abernethy, Thomas Perkins ( 1959 ) ( 1937 ). Western Lands and the American Revolution. New York : Russell & Russell. Borrows, John ( 1997 ). `` Wampum at Niagara : The Royal Proclamation, Canadian Legal History, and Self - Government ''. In Asch, Michael. Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada. Vancouver : UBC Press. ISBN 0 - 7748 - 0580 - 3. Calloway, Colin ( 2006 ). The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of North America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 - 19 - 530071 - 8. Further reading Marshall, Peter. `` Sir William Johnson and the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1768. '' Journal of American Studies ( 1967 ) 1 # 2 pp 149 -- 179. doi : 10.1017 / S0021875800007830 Sosin, Jack. Whitehall and the wilderness : The Middle West in British colonial policy, 1760 - 1775 ( 1961 ), the standard scholarly history of the proclamation and its effects. Stuart, Paul. The Indian Office : Growth and Development of an American Institution, 1865 - 1900 ( UMI Research Press, 1979 ) Canada Cashin, Edward J. `` Governor Henry Ellis and the Transformation of British North America. '' Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1994. Fenge, Terry and Jim Aldridge ( eds. ), Keeping Promises : The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada, 2015, McGill - Queen 's University Press Lawson, Philip. The Imperial Challenge : Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution. Montreal / Kingston : McGill - Queen 's University Press, 1989. Roth, Christopher F. ( 2002 ) `` Without Treaty, without Conquest : Indigenous Sovereignty in Post-Delgamuukw British Columbia. '' Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 143 -- 165. Stonechild, Blair A. `` Indian - White Relations in Canada, 1763 to the Present. '' In Encyclopedia of North American Indians, ed. Frederick E. Hoxie, 277 -- 81. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. Tousignant, Pierre. `` The Integration of the Province of Quebec into the British Empire, 1763 -- 91. Part 1 : From the Royal Proclamation to the Quebec Act. '' In Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1980. 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Question: what prohibited further colonial settlement west of the appalachian mountains in 1763
Answer: The Royal Proclamation of 1763