The Royal Proclamation of 1763, opened the Western Frontier, when the French surrendered the land to Britain, after the French and Indiana War, also known as the Seven Years War. The Western Frontier line was all of the land West of the Appalachian Mountains. Britain did not want the colonists and the Indians fighting; therefore, Britain put out the Royal Proclamation of 1763, stating that the colonists could not occupy, or even go past the Western Frontier. The colonists that had already established homes past these boundaries were demanded to leave. The Proclamation gave relief to the Indians that feared that the colonists would run them off of their land again. The colonists did not like the idea of Britain putting limitations on them from thousands of miles away; consequently, the colonists rebelled (Proclamation of 1763 proc63.html ).