Editing Royal Proclamation of 1763 (section)

===New colonies===
[[File:NorthAmerica-WaterDivides.png|thumb|left|The Eastern watershed boundary in the southern areas (orange line) and the St. Lawrence watershed boundary in the northern regions (magenta line) of this map more or less defined the Royal Proclamation's western boundaries]]
The Proclamation of 1763 dealt with managing former French territories in North America that Britain acquired following its victory over France in the French and Indian War and regulating colonial settlers' expansion. It established new governments for several areas: the [[Province of Quebec (1763–1791)|province of Quebec]], the new colonies of [[West Florida]] and [[East Florida]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gannon |first1=Michael |title=The History of Florida |date=2013 |publisher=University Press of Florida |location=Gainesville |isbn=978-0-8130-6401-7 |pages=144–147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7satQEACAAJ&pg=PA144}}</ref> and a group of Caribbean islands, [[History of Grenada|Grenada]], [[History of Tobago|Tobago]], [[History of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent]], and [[History of Dominica|Dominica]], collectively referred to as the British Ceded Islands.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Niddrie |first1=D. |title=Eighteenth-Century Settlement in the British Caribbean |journal=Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers |date=December 1966 |volume=40 |issue=40 |pages=67–80 |doi=10.2307/621569 |jstor=621569}}</ref>