SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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It was a treaty that determined which European country owned which parts of North America after the French and Indian War.
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It was a plan to unite the 13 British Colonies as one to defeat the French for the Ohio River Valley.
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It was an imaginary boundary along the Appalachian Mountains that prevented colonist from westward expansion.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The solution seemed simple. They issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which declared the boundaries of the thirteen colonies as the Appalachian Mountains. Any travel or settlement beyond the mountains would be illegal.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following statements best explains the reason that the British government passed the Proclamation of 1763? The Proclamation of 1763 aimed to reduce hostilities between indigenous nations and American colonists by reining in colonial movement into newly-acquired territory.
Detailed explanation-4: -The colonists strongly objected to the Proclamation of 1763. They resented that the British government was restricting their settlements and taking control of the west out of their hands. Colonial anger over the proclamation helped spark the 12-year crisis that led to the American Revolution.