both Britain and France wanted to corner the market on the lucrative north American fur trade. american settlers began to move west of the Appalachian mountains in order to look for farmland, and they ran against french traders from Quebec who were in the area gathering furs. ultimately it was an attack led by George Washington in the disputed territory that started the war in north America.
both sides saw this war as a way to determine control of north America once and for all. the region was doubly important as both Britain and France considered the possibility of using it as a supply point for its lucrative sugar trade in the Caribbean. while furs were valuable, the value of sugar from the Caribbean was worth more than all the other raw materials combined in the English colonies.
