Historians use past events and artifacts much as a lawyer uses past details, events, and dna to tie the person to the crime or to help the person they are defending.
Women rights
education for blind and deaf children
rights of the mentally ill
Wanting to limit British influence along their frontier, the French built a string of forts from Lake Erie towards the forks of the Ohio (present-day Pittsburgh). Because rivers were so important to transportation, the forks of the Ohio was a strategically important location, one that both nations wanted to control.
