EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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They were pleased to have new guidelines about territory for settlement.
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They were angry that Britain had limited the area available for settlement.
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They were pleased not to have to cross the Appalachians to establish farms.
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They were grateful to have more British ships bringing goods to ports.
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Detailed explanation-1: -This angered the colonists. They felt the Proclamation was a plot to keep them under the strict control of England and that the British only wanted them east of the mountains so they could keep an eye on them. As a result, colonists rebelled against this law just like they did with the mercantile laws.
Detailed explanation-2: -They were angry that Britain had limited the area available for settlement. They were grateful to have more British ships bringing goods to ports.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Proclamation of 1763 created enormous resentment among the colonists towards Britain. They felt that it was unfair of Britain to forbid them from settling on the land because they helped Britain fight for it during French and Indian War.
Detailed explanation-4: -After Britain won the Seven Years’ War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia. The Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the French and Indian War, granted Britain a great deal of valuable North American land.
Detailed explanation-5: -The proclamation of 1763 angered colonists. Colonists felt that the proclamation took away their right as British citizens to travel where they wanted.