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Explain why both France and Britain wanted North America

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they both wanted America because king George the third send Christopher Columbus to America because he saw land and when he came back he told the king that there was gold and the French heard so they also wanted gold and tried to go to Virginia where the British were but the ended up by the north

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Answer:

Both wanted control of the fur trace and the fisheries off the coast of Newfoundland.

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