Why Did Britain Seek to Control the Ohio Valley

question 99

Multiple Choice

Why did Britain seek to control the Ohio Valley?

• A) To continue its expansion west and block French land-grabbing and influence
• B) To ensure defeat of the French in the War of Jenkins´s Ear
• C) To halt the growth of Spanish colonization in North America
• D) To secure the Mississippi River and continue pushing further south to control all of Mexico
• E) To link their Canadian holdings with those of the lower Mississippi Valley

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