HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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fair treatment of Native Americans.
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British dominance in North America.
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French colonies in Southeast Asia.
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independent nations in Africa.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Causes of the French and Indian War The French and Indian War began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1756–the first official year of fighting in the Seven Years’ War–the British suffered a series of defeats against the French and their broad network of Native American alliances.
Detailed explanation-3: -It began with a dispute over control of the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River called the Forks of the Ohio, and the site of the French Fort Duquesne at the location that later became Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1754 Washington’s surprise attack upon a small French force at Jumonville Glen and his subsequent surrender to French forces at the Battle of Fort Necessity helped to spark the French and Indian War, which was part of the imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War.
Detailed explanation-5: -Battle of Jumonville Glen, (28 May 1754), opening battle of the French and Indian War and first combat action for George Washington. Imperial ambitions and competition for the rich fur trade with American Indian tribes brought England and France into conflict in the Ohio River Valley.