USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Iroquois Confederacy, initially neutral, eventually allied with the British in 1758, while the Algonquins, their traditional rivals, backed the French.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Iroquois Confederacy sided with the British during the French and Indian War. The Iroquois Confederacy claimed that it owned the lands that made up the Ohio Country.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Iroquois Confederacy or the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), was made up of five tribes, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and the Seneca originating from New York. In 1722, the Tuscarora tribe, who originated from North Carolina, joined the Confederacy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many of the Iroquois people allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War, particularly warriors from the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga and Seneca nations. These nations had longstanding trade relations with the British and hoped they might stop American encroachment on their lands.

Detailed explanation-5: -Seven Years War (1754-1763) Sometimes called the French and Indian War, it was a conflict between France and Britain, in which the Algonquins sided with the French and the Iroquois sided with the British and the colonists.