Editing Royal Proclamation of 1763 (section)

==Response from colonists==
Many colonists disregarded the proclamation line and settled west, which created tension between them and the Native Americans.<ref>{{cite web |title=Proclamation Line of 1763, Quebec Act of 1774 and Westward Expansion |url=https://www.history.state.gov/milestones/1751-1775/proclamation-line-1763 |website=Office of the Historian |publisher=United States Department of State |access-date=5 March 2020}}</ref> [[Pontiac's Rebellion]] (1763–1766) was a war involving Native American tribes, primarily from the [[Great Lakes region]], the [[Illinois Country]] and the Ohio Country, who were dissatisfied with [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the end of the Seven Years' War. They were able to take over a large number of the forts which commanded the waterways involved in trade within the region and export to Great Britain.<ref>{{cite book|last=McDonnell|first=Michael|title=Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzepCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA209|year=2015|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-71418-5|pages=209–238}}</ref> The proclamation line had been conceived before the onset of Pontiac's Rebellion, but the outbreak of this conflict hastened the process of making it law.<ref name="wood-22" />