History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0605 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Proclamation Line
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The idea
The Proclamation of seventeen sixty-three forbade white settlement west of a line along the spine of the Appalachians, to forestall frontier conflict and costly warfare.
In practice
Virginians including George Washington reading it as obstruction.
Where people slip
Colonists believed they had won the war precisely to secure the right to expand westward.
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