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Explain the causes of the French and Indian War.

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Answer: Reasons for the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War started over the particular issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a piece of the British Empire, and hence open for exchange and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire.

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The causes were the Ohio River Valley. It was originally owned by the French. But, the British colonists wanted more land because their populations as getting bigger and bigger.
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