The map shows European lands in the Ohio River Valley in the mid-eighteenth century. A map of eastern United States titled European lands in the Ohio River Valley. British territory includes most of the original 13 colonies. French territory includes Canada and area west of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River. Disputed territories include western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, western Virginia, Kentucky, most of Tennessee and territory west of Georgia to the Mississippi River.

What is one reason the French and the British fought over the Ohio River Valley?

They wanted access to cheap American Indian labor.
They wanted to establish plantations.
They wanted control over major rivers.
They wanted power over the Iroquois Confederacy.