Despite what seemed like a success, the Treaty of Paris [1763] ultimately encouraged
dissension between Anglo-American colonists and the British Government because
their interests in North America no longer coincided. The British Government no
longer wanted to maintain an expensive military presence, and its attempts to
manage a post-treaty frontier policy that would balance colonists' and Indians'
interests would prove ineffective and even counterproductive.
-U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
How did the British government attempt to solve the problem described in this
excerpt?
It provided weapons and supplies to both groups.
It organized frontier settlers into a citizen militia.
It banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.
It created self-governing assemblies for frontier regions.
