Great Britain's initial attempt at controlling the colonists was the Proclamation of 1763, one of the results of the Seven Years’ War, which is also as the French and Indian War. This particular war was fought between Britain and France when disputes arose over French expansion into the Ohio River Valley in 1756; at the end of the war, the British received territories from France and Spain that therefore launched their expansion westward. Clearly, the British wanted to control westward expansion, and so they wrote what became known as the Proclamation of 1763. The Proclamation of 1763 largely favored Britain’s aspirations; its purpose was to end Pontiac's Rebellion, a war led by an Indian leader who wanted to protest the policies created by
