Question

7a) What is the name of the dark line shown on this map? Who created the line?
7b) The Dark Line shown on this map separated what two groups of people?
7c) What was the purpose of the Proclamation Line of 1763?

Answer 1

Answer:

7a) The dark line shown on the map was called the Proclamation Line of 1763. It was created by the Royal Proclamation of 1763, issued on October 7, 1763 by the King George III as a result of the acquisition by Great Britain of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War.

7b) The Proclamation Line of 1763 was one of many attempts to define a boundary that would separate colonists from Native Americans.

7c)The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.