<span>The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763 by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Britain's vast new North American empire, and to stabilize relations with North American Indians through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. The Proclamation in essence forbade Americans from settling or buying land west of the Appalachians. Colonists were angry because many already had land in that area. Additionally, the Proclamation gave the Crown a monopoly in land bought from Native Americans.</span>
People from the Eastern, such as slavic-speaking regions, and Southern European regions, such as Greece and Italy, made up the majority of immigrants from the 1890s to the 1920s. This marked a shift from the previous decades, in which Central and Northern European regions were sending the most immigrants to the United States.
