oct 7, 1763 - The Proclamation of 1763 Oct. 7, 1763

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-issued by the British government
-forbidding settlement west of the rivers running through the Appalachians
-too late b/c colonist already moved west of the line
-agitated colonial settlers
-1763 marked the end of salutary neglect and the beginning of the "road to revolution"
-first of a series of restrictions imposed on the colonists by the British Parliament
-pattern of demarcating Indian Territory is established that is later adopted by the US gov't.

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