It was the first measure to affect all thirteen colonies. The proclamation also established three new mainland colonies: Quebec, West Florida and East Florida, while extending Georgia’s southern border and granting land to soldiers who had fought in the Seven Year’s War.

Savannah River

Aiken is located near the mid-point of South Carolina’s long border with Georgia, about 15 miles east of Augusta, Georgia. US 1 and US 78 pass through the heart of the city, and Interstate 20 skirts its northern border. Aiken is the seat of Aiken County and the center of South Carolina’s Thoroughbred Country.

South Carolina and Georgia disagreed over the exact location of the boundary in the lower Savannah River, as well as ownership of several islands in that region. At stake in this border dispute was not only tax dollars but also potentially millions of dollars in federal aid.

Georgia’s original boundaries, as defined by its charter, was all of the land, “which lies from the most northern part of a stream or river there, commonly called the Savannah, all along the sea coast to the southward, unto the most southern stream of a certain other great water or river called the Alatamaha, and …

The Proclamation of 1763 didn’t let colonist settle on the Native American’s land. The colonists were upset about the Proclamation of 1763 because they wanted to settle in the land they were forbidden to settle in.

Great Britain

What role did the French and British colonies play in this war? The French ceded some of their West Indian lands, most of their colonies in India, and all other French territory east of the Mississippi (except New Orleans) to Great Britain.

Battle of Quebec, also called Battle of the Plains of Abraham, (September 13, 1759), in the French and Indian War, decisive defeat of the French under the marquis de Montcalm by a British force led by Maj. Gen. James Wolfe.

However, what if the French had won the French and Indian War? This new Treaty of Paris would have given all British land in the continental North America to the French. Although there would be land cessions elsewhere to the British, only the land in continental North America would affect the United States’ history.

What if France and its Allies won the Seven Years War? France would keep its north American holdings. Prussia would be forced to give up Silesia, back to Austria, and Frederick would have to concede to Austrian dominance in Germany.

The British had won the French and Indian War. They took control of the lands that had been claimed by France (see below). France lost its mainland possessions to North America.

Causes of the Seven Years’ War The war was driven by the commercial and imperial rivalry between Britain and France, and by the antagonism between Prussia (allied to Britain) and Austria (allied to France). In Europe, Britain sent troops to help its ally, Prussia, which was surrounded by its enemies.

French and Indian War

In 1756–the first official year of fighting in the Seven Years War–the British suffered a series of defeats against the French and their broad network of Native American alliances. The Seven Years War ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763.

Britain also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War. They protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens.