THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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The colonial powers wanted to build floating crops on the waterways.
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The colonial powers wanted to use the waterways to help irrigate the crops.
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The colonial powers wanted to use the waterways to fish.
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The colonial powers wanted to use the waterways for trade.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The colonial powers wanted to use the waterways to help irrigate the crops.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why was it so important for the colonial powers to claim the waterways? The waterways connected settlements, distributed goods and people throughout the area. Because of this, control over a significant waterway increased the colonial power’s economic and military strength .
Detailed explanation-3: -In the 19th century, energized by the industrial revolution and under pressure from a rapidly growing population, Europe launched a new period of colonial expansion, inspired by the discovery of new markets, new areas for the settlement of Europe’s poor migrants, and the desire to “civilize the barbarian nations “.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Because rivers were so important to transportation, the forks of the Ohio was a strategically important location, one that both nations wanted to control.