Read the excerpt of a letter from George Washington to William Crawford in 1767 and answer the question. The other matter . . . attempting to secure some of the most valuable Lands in the King's part which I think may be accomplished after a while notwithstanding the Proclamation that restrains it at present and prohibits the Settling of them at all . . . as a temporary expedient¹ to quiet the Minds of the Indians and must fall of course in a few years especially when those Indians are consenting to our Occupying the Lands.
¹expedient: means of achieving a goal
For what aspect of the Proclamation of 1763 is Washington expressing his contempt in this excerpt?
A
efforts to assimilate American Indians into Anglo-American culture

B
restrictions placed on trade between the British colonies

C
attempts to limit settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

D
limitations placed on the types of crops colonists could grow