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Why did Lord Dunmore's War begin?

Chief Logan believed white people to be inherently evil.
The settlers continued to move onto Native Americans’ land.
A Maryland soldier murdered ten members of Logan’s tribe.
The Gods told Chief Logan to go to war with the settlers.

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The first dispute traced back to the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix in which the Iroquois Confederacy surrendered control of lands south of the Ohio River

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