Indigenous people benefited from the Proclamation of 1763 primarily because their rights to land were officially recognized by a European nation. The Proclamation established a boundary line (the Proclamation Line) that prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, effectively recognizing Indigenous lands and granting them some protection against further encroachment by settlers. This was an attempt by the British government to stabilize relations with Native American tribes after the tensions that arose from the French and Indian War, but it was not a complete restoration of lands lost before the war or an end to settlement in the west.
How did Indigenous people benefit from the Proclamation of 1763?
They were given the chance to end the settlement of the west.
They gained back all of the territory they had lost before the war.
Their rights to land were officially recognized by a European nation.
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