Most European settlers, accustomed to small-scale farms, viewed the 
Indian's vast hunting grounds as a wasteful, ineffective use of their 
land. They also wanted sovereignty over Indian territory in order to 
claim the gateway the west, beginning with the Ohio Valley. After 
the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Paris in 1763 labeled all 
Indians "subjects" of the British crown, and established the 
settlements of eastern North America as British colonies. The 
Proclaimation of 1763 marked boundaries along the Appalachians, 
separating Indian land from European settlements and nullifying any 
"sea-to-sea" claims based on colonial charters. The Plan of 1764 also 
set up an imperial fur trading system at the frontier forts intended 
to protect  Indian land and treaty rights. In the end, however, these 
agreements gave in to pressure from speculators and westward 
expansion.