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ROYAL PROCLAMATION. Royal Proclamation of 1763. Purpose of the Proclamation to organize Britain’s vast new North American empire to stabilize relations with North American Indians through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. Royal Proclamation.
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Royal Proclamation of 1763 • Purpose of the Proclamation • to organize Britain’s vast new North American empire • to stabilize relations with North American Indians through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.
Royal Proclamation • Biggest problem confronting the British Empire was maintaining peace with the Native peoples who lived on the land acquired from France in the Treaty of Paris. • Many of these people—primarily in the Great Lakes region—had a long and close relationship with France • dismayed to find that they were now under British sovereignty. • Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763–1766) was an unsuccessful effort by Native Americans to prevent Great Britain from occupying the land previously claimed by France.
Royal Proclamation and Land Claims • Proclamation created a line between the British colonies on the Atlantic coast and American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. • Proclamation line was not intended to be a permanent boundary between white and American Indian lands, but rather a temporary boundary which could be extended further west in an orderly, lawful manner.
