Think the answer is small, independent farmers.
The Royal Proclamation of 1763<span> was issued October 7, </span>1763<span>, by King George III following </span>Great Britain<span>'s acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.</span>
The second one because nobody really cares who is was written for
Most Southerners believed they were naturally better than African Americans and therefore had the right to "own" them, while many Northerners thought it was morally wrong, but some Northerners didn't want the competition of enslaved labor.
