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The Appalachian Mountains became the western boundary of the British colonies.
under French rule until 1803, when all the French territory west of the Mississippi River was purchased by the United States.i.e. it was first claimed by France .
The Ohio river valley became an area of conflict because of the fertile land that it contained. There, the French or the British could set up camps and claim the territory as their own leaving them self sustaining for the most part.
The British ceded the area north of the Ohio River and west of the Appalachian Mountains at the end of the Revolutionary War with the signing of the Paris Treaty in 1783.
Grand (Neosho) River.