What is the Treaty of Hard Labor?

What is the Treaty of Hard Labor? Margaret-Anne MooreWilmington, California The British gained control of the Atlantic seaboard—from what is now Maine to Georgia—as a result of winning the French and Indian War in 1763. That year’s Royal Proclamation forbade white settlement west of that area, a region that stretched from the Upper Midwest through the Deep South, reserving it for the Indian tribes. Of course, settlers ignored the law and pressured the government to relent. The result: 176