Proclamation of 1763 Cause: British leaders feared that more fighting would take place on the frontier if colonists kept moving onto American Indian lands.
Effect: This law banned British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountians. It also ordered settlers to leave the upper Ohio River Valley.
on October 7th, 1763 king George lll issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian mountain. In so doing he hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently Seven year wars.
