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The French and Indian war has concluded with Britain victorious. The Treaty of Paris ending the hostilities included France yielding the lands from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River to the English.
This seemed like wonderful news to the American colonists: more land for everyone!
But the Prime Minister of England, George Grenville, did not want more war with the inhabitants of that region: viz., the native Americans, since war is so expensive and the government was broke. As a result, King George III proclaimed, in 1763, that English colonists were prohibited from crossing the Appalachians and settling west of the "Proclamation Line."
Watch the one-minute video explaining the proclamation.
To many colonists, this was tyranny. They just fought a war and won, but without the right to reap the benefits.
DECISION: You are a North Carolina family running out of land. You know there are millions of acres to the West. What do you do in light of the Proclamation of 1763? Do you comply with the King's Proclamation or do you cross the line and begin to settle in the Kentucky region?
Click here once you have made your decision to discover what decision Americans actually made
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