Question

What were the causes of the French and Indian War. Is it really true that the colonists did not want this war?

150+ words plus reference

Answer 1

Cause:

Although struggles for supremacy had been going on for many decades between France and England in the New World, hostilities intensified in the early 1750?s as both English and French settlers had attempted to colonize land in the Ohio River Valley, near present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The English settlers, who had moved northwest from Virginia, and French settlers, who had moved east from the Great Lakes, or south from Canada, each thought they owned the rights to the land.

In 1754, English forces under George Washington had begun their march to Fort Duquesne for the purposes of ousting the French from the region by force. On the way, they encountered a French scouting party near present-day Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Washington

Answer 2

The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years

Answer 3

The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years