LaSalle, the French explorer, had claimed a huge land area from the Appalachian Mountains in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west, and from the Great Lakes in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. He called this area New France. The whole Ohio River Valley was not part of LaSalle's claim, but gradually the French moved into all of the Ohio River Valley. They were mostly fur trappers by trade.
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This is from a social studies book use at a very smart school just translated by me!!To the French, the Ohio Valley was an important link between France's holdings in Canada and Louisiana. The British, particularly those in the colonies of Pennsylvania and Virgina, saw it as an area for trade and growth.
Countries that claimed land in the Americas: Spain Portugal Great Britain France The Netherlands Denmark Germany Russia Sweden Countries that claimed land in what is now the United States of America: Great Britain Spain France Denmark The Netherlands Russia Sweden
The Ohio Valley was the land that the English and French traders quarrels centered on. Both the English and French believed that they owned the land.