THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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They saw it as an important link between their holdings in Canada and Louisiana.
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They saw it as an area for trade and growth?
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They saw it as a potential location for the King of France to build a palace in North America.
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They saw it as an opportunity to build better farming communities.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The French claimed the Upper Ohio River Valley. They wanted to trade with the American Indians and control the area.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. Unlike the British, the French did not plan to settle in the Ohio River Valley.
Detailed explanation-3: -What advantage would the French have for gaining control of the Ohio Valley? it lay between Canada and their settlements in the Mississippi River Valley. The British would not be able to expand west.
Detailed explanation-4: -In North America, Great Britain and France both claimed the Ohio River Valley. British settlers wanted to farm the rich soil there, and the French wanted to trap beavers and trade the furs.
Detailed explanation-5: -The “far Indian” tribes wanted to hunt the Ohio River Valley for fur to trade with their French allies, igniting tensions between themselves and the Iroquois.