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Both sides claimed the land in the Ohio river Valley.
The British feared the relationship between French and Native Americans.
French troops move south from Canada and begin building forts in the disputed territory. -
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.
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The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. The French and Indian War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in February 1763.
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William Pitt had taken control of the British war efforts. -
The British are able to systematically seize French forts in Penn and Canada and the French find themselves on the defensive. They abandon their forts in New York and retreat into Canada.
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They wanted to settle that land, even though it was where the Americans Indians lived. Twenty years later, at the end of the American Revolution, the Americans no longer had to pay attention to the British decision and began to settle the area. colonists rebelled against this law just like they did with the mercantile laws.
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The french and Indian war ended in 1763 with the treaty of paris.
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The British crown borrowed heavily from British and Dutch bankers to bankroll the war, doubling British national debt. King George II argued that since the French and Indian War benefited the colonists by securing their borders, they should contribute to paying down the war debt.