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    Bickering and dispute led to a war among two countries. It was a battle to determine which country would be rendered as superior in North America. Superior means "higher in rank, status, and quality" and neither one of these two countries were going to back down from the ultimate fight. The French and Indian War, as it was titled, reigned on from the year of 1754 to that of 1763. It all began with conflicts over territory and land. At the time, the French explorers had been the first Europeans to

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    The French and Indian war lasted from 1757-1763, which was also known as the seven year war. This war was fought between the colonies of New France, British America, with the Indians helping out the French. Both colonies also had the support from their mother country. The main cause for this conflict was that both colonies wanted to have claims in North America and have better trade with the Native Americans. These two colonies wanted to have more land than the other. The fought because they wanted

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    The French and Indian War was a war, for the most part, between France and England. It lasted from 1754 to 1763, and brought about large changes to the New World. England won the war, so France ceded all of its land to England and Spain. Britain gained power as a result of its victory, and those results were felt by the American colonists. The aftermath of the war was shown in the effects it had on political, economic, and ideological relations between Great Britain and the American colonies. The

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    The French and Indian war, also known as the “Seven Years’ War,” altered many relations between the British and the American colonies due to the colonies having more political tasks and republicanism, economically through British taxation, and the colonists wanted independence ideologically. Before 1754, North America consisted mainly of three large territories: the Spanish, the English, and the French. The Spanish was in control of the southwestern part of North America, the English was in control

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    |2010 | |In 1754, George Washington, a lieutenant colonel, was dispatch to the Ohio Country with an armed force to |French and Indian War Research Paper | |build a fort in present-day Pittsburgh. After arriving he found that the French were already building a | | |fort, Fort Duquesne. Washington ended up building Fort Necessity around the

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    History Chapter 5 Summary As the French and Indian war ended, British officials devised their own way of dealing with America, these measures did not work in the colonist’s favor. As of 1763, after the French and Indian War; territories Britain had in North America stretched from the Hudson Bay to the Caribbean, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. France’s territory on the mainland was reduced to two small islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Spain owned present-day Cuba, Louisiana, California

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    The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years’ War, was another war in the series of quarrels among the French and the British. The selfish “need” for more colonial territory and wealth was the backbone of the war. One of the main physical outcomes of the war was how the Brits’ territory doubled (Document A). However, the war had many other effects as well. The war altered the colonies to have resentment and hatred towards the British for how they had become more present in the colonial

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    French Indian War The English and France were rivals in North America because France controlled Canada. The French claimed the Mississippi Valley and wanted to expand economic influences among the Native Americans from the east to the west. England controlled the eastern coast of North America. They wanted to expand colonial settlements further to the west. French policy in America was sent to only limited numbers of colonists to be in the trade. The English policy was to send large amounts of numbers

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    The main cause of the French and Indian War was from frontier tensions. Both French and British colonists wanted to expand its country and its influence on other territories. The French colonists controlled most of upstate New York and other parts of Pennsylvania, while Great Britain controlled the 13 colonies. The border between the French and British was not well described and they both thought they owned the Ohio country. Both European countries wanted this territory because of the strategic advantages

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    The French and Indian of war, the war was a product of controversy between the French men and Britain over claiming land in the new world. The French had been working to becoming friendly with the Indians, however the Virginians had been giving permission to seek new land and trade with Indians. The arrival of the Virginians enraged the French, they built forts in western Pennsylvania to defend interest. As news of what was happening reached Williamsburg, the governor sent out young George Washington

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