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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 of 1748| | ** <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Ohio Company of 1748|in 1748 the Ohio Company received 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, which helped spark the French-Indian War)}}</ul> | ||
<li>: a land grant of 1748 which included land claimed by France; as a result of the grant, numerous surveyors and militia expeditions were sent to explore, map and open the lands for American settlement, including to build a fort that played an important part in the outbreak of the French-Indian War. | |||
* <u>Direct causes</u>: | * <u>Direct causes</u>: | ||
** in late 1753, Virginia Governor Dinwiddie, an Ohio Company shareholder, sent Col. George Washington to warn the French to abandon forts they had built on lands claimed by the Oho Company; the French refused, and Dinwiddie sent a small militia force, which was driven off; in May 1754, Dinwiddie sent a larger force to attack the fort, now Ft. Duquesne. The French held the fort and defeated the Virginia militia, under Washington, who surrendered Fr. Necessity. These battles marked the outbreak of the French-Indian War. | |||
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