MCAP Grade 8 Social Studies Practice Questions - Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program Social Studies - Grade 8 Exam

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Read the excerpt below from King George III's Proclamation of 1763: "We do hereby strictly forbid, on Pain of our Displeasure, all our loving Subjects from making any Settlements or Plantations... beyond the Heads or Sources of any of the Rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the West and North West..." Why did King George III issue this proclamation following the French and Indian War?

To encourage American colonists to settle the rich farmland of the Ohio River Valley To prevent conflict between American colonists and Native American tribes west of the Appalachian Mountains To punish Northern merchants for boycotting British manufactured goods To clear land for the construction of British military forts along the Pacific coastline

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To prevent conflict between American colonists and Native American tribes west of the Appalachian Mountains

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