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** French colonial expansion across the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and along the Mississippi River | ** French colonial expansion across the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and along the Mississippi River | ||
** English colonial expansion in western New York and Pennsylvania | ** English colonial expansion in western New York and Pennsylvania | ||
** Ohio Company land grant of 1748, which included land claimed by France; as a result of the land grant, numerous surveyors and militia expeditions were sent to explore, map and open the lands for American settlement | ** Ohio Company of 1748|recieved Royal land grant of 200,000 acres in the Ohio Valley, which included parts of modern Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; the Company was owned by wealthy Virginia planters and London Merchants, and served as an opening for American colonial expansion across the Appalachian Mountains and the Ohio Valley, which was land disputed by the French; the Company was required to build and maintain a fort to protect against the French and Indians}} | ||
lands across the Appalachian Mountains in the Ohio Valley were given to the Ohio Company of Virginia, which lay in and directly next to French claims in the region | |||
land grant of 1748, which included land claimed by France; as a result of the land grant, numerous surveyors and militia expeditions were sent to explore, map and open the lands for American settlement | |||
* <u>Direct causes</u>: | * <u>Direct causes</u>: | ||