Return to Unit List Grade 4 Lesson Review Settling Ohio Conflict and Settlement The French and the British in Ohio   Type your name:   By the 1600s, the French had built settlements in eastern Fort DuquesneCanadaNew FranceGreat BritainSelect your answer. They also claimed lands further west. Their lands in North America were called PickawillanyNew FranceCanadaFort DuquesneSelect your answer. In 1669, a French trader named La SalleCéloron de BlainvilleChristopher GistGeorge WashingtonSelect your answer explored the Ohio River. He claimed the whole river basin for France. Great BritainCanadaQuebecNew FranceSelect your answer also had claims in North America. From 1607 to 1733, the British established squattersFrench and Indian WarscoloniesfrontierSelect your answer near the East Coast. Some colonies crossed the Appalachians. Both the French and British wanted the Ohio Country. In 1749, the French sent George WashingtonChristopher GistPickawillanyCéloron de BlainvilleSelect your answer. He tried to make clear the French claim and to get the British to leave. The British asked George WashingtonChristopher GistGreat BritainCéloron de BlainvilleSelect your answer to survey the Ohio Country, meaning to measure it out. They wanted to sell land to colonists. The conflict soon involved soldiers. In 1752, the French attacked British traders at PickawillanyGeorge WashingtonQuebecFort DuquesneSelect your answer. Then they built a chain of forts along the eastern border of the Ohio Country. The governor of Virginia sent a young general named George WashingtonCéloron de BlainvilleChristopher GistLa SalleSelect your answer to protect a small British trading post. Before Washington arrived, the French took over the post and built Fort DuquesneNew FranceQuebecLa SalleSelect your answer. The French and their Native American allies defeated Washington. The PontiacsquattersFrench and Indian WarsTreaty of ParisSelect your answer had begun. In 1758, the British again attacked Fort Duquesne. This time they won control as the French fled. Later, other French forts fell to the British, including Fort DuquesnePontiacQuebecPickawillanySelect your answer in Canada. The French had no hope for victory. France and Britain signed the Fort DuquesneGreat BritainLa SalleTreaty of ParisSelect your answer, an agreement that gave all of New France to the British. Some Native Americans, however, continued to fight. Céloron de BlainvilleQuebecPontiacChristopher GistSelect your answer was their leader. British leaders thought they could keep the peace by keeping colonists away from the Ohio frontiercoloniesGreat BritainsquattersSelect your answer. They passed laws to do this. Nevertheless, many people moved anyway. They were called French and Indian WarssquattersfrontiercoloniesSelect your answer, meaning they lived on land without permission and without paying for it. Soon, thousands of squatters lived on the Ohio frontier. Angry Native Americans fought the squatters, and many squatters fought back.