British settlers pushed into French and Native American lands, this started the French and Indian war.
Answer: Option D
<u>Explanation:</u>
This was a war that lasted for nine long years between the French and the British. Both the British and the French wanted to colonize the Ohio territory. The British claimed that the part of land between Atlantic and Pacific Ocean belonged to the them.
The French too claimed that it belonged to them as their explorers had visited those places. The rift started when the English men wanted to sell a farmland in Ohio. The French fought that they were the first to explore. British Settlers pushed west into French and Native American lands.Then a war was fought and the British using new strategies won their war.
Life was hard because many southern cities lay in ruins and there where
no jobs around leaving Africans Americans homeless and penniless. Hope this helps