USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ohio Company, in U.S. colonial history, organization of Englishmen and Virginians, established in 1748, to promote trade with groups of American Indians and to secure English control of the Ohio River valley.

Detailed explanation-2: -The American Indians were fighting to maintain control of their land and their cultural future. The French claimed the Upper Ohio River Valley. They wanted to trade with the American Indians and control the area. The British also claimed the Upper Ohio River Valley.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -In time, the French lost most of their fur trading business to the British. In promoting the settlement of American colonists in a region west of the Appalachians then thinly populated by Indian tribes, the Ohio Company helped provoke the seven-year French and Indian War.