SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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It settled the ownership of the Ohio River Valley and removed France from the area.
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It settled the ownership of the Mississippi River Valley and removed Spain from the area.
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It settled the ownership of the American River Valley and removed Russia from the area.
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It settled the ownership of the Hudson River Valley and removed Britain from the area.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War /Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
Detailed explanation-2: -The terms of the Treaty of Paris were harsh to losing France. All French territory on the mainland of North America was lost. The British received Quebec and the Ohio Valley. The port of New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi were ceded to Spain for their efforts as a British ally.
Detailed explanation-3: -The rivers were their main way of traveling. The French wanted to control the American Indian trade in the Ohio River Valley and keep the Pennsylvania traders out. They also needed the American Indians living there to be their allies.
Detailed explanation-4: -At the 1763 peace conference, the British received the territories of Canada from France and Florida from Spain, opening the Mississippi Valley to westward expansion.
Detailed explanation-5: -The French and Indian War, the North American phase of the larger Seven Years’ War, began after a series of incidents in the upper Ohio River valley, which the French and British governments both claimed as their territory.