<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War / Seven Years' War . It forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve . </P> <P> This proclamation rendered worthless all land grants given by the government to British subjects who fought for the Crown against France . People throughout the various colonies were filled with indignation at having been unjustly shut out of the vast western wilderness and away from its resources . This anger was a foreshadowing of the discontent that would later arise during the American Revolution . The Royal Proclamation continues to be of legal importance to First Nations in Canada . The 1763 proclamation line is similar to the Eastern Continental Divide's path running northwards from Georgia to the Pennsylvania--New York border and north - eastwards past the drainage divide on the St. Lawrence Divide from there northwards through New England . </P>

What prohibited further colonial settlement west of the appalachian mountains in 1763