During the colonial era, a major effect of the appalachian mountains on settlement was that the mountain range encouraged people to move north. kept people from settling farther east. encouraged expansion and settlement. kept people from settling farther west.

For many years, the Appalachian Mountains acted as a deterrent on westward settlement. The British Proclamation of 1763, created after the 7-Year War (French & Indian War) actually forbade colonists from settling beyond the mountains, largely considered to be a gesture of peace towards the tribes that lived west of the mountains.

Colonists did end up ignoring this proclamation and by the time of the Revolution, colonists were beginning to freely move past the range.

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if you are talking about current time the answer is no

if you are talking about when the colonies were developing the answer is yes

the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.