OEOCn^APTIK^ rONDTTTONS IN THE EART.Y ITTSTORY 

 OE TUK OHIO COUNTllY 



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Routoa to Oliio -403 



St. Lawrence river 



Moliawk pass 



Mississii)])i river 



Appaiac.liian K-'il"^ 

 Early c^iTorts to reaoli (lie Oliio river 10(1 



La, Salle 



The Virffiiiiaii (expedition 



Claimants of tlm area now Ohio. -lOS 



Claim of tlx; Iro(iuois (Jonlederacy 



Claim of th e French 40!) 



Basis ol" claim 



Competition in fur-trade 



]';(Hiity of (daim 

 (^laim of (Ireat Hritain 111 



Royal charters 



Discovery by John ( 'ahot 



Deed from the Irocjuois Confederaciy 



The French and Indian War 



George Ill's "royal domain," and th(! (Quebec Act 



Didiculties with Indians in (Hiforcung claim 



Th(! trans-Appalachian area secured to the English 

 Claim of Virginia 'tlG 



Population of Virginia, 



Dunmore's Indian War 



Ca,mpa,ign of (J(!org(! Rodgers (Mai'k 



Itdluence of Clark's campaign in Peaci; of Paris, 178.'} 

 Claim of the United States Congress 411) 



State claims conceded to the federal goveriunent 



The Northwest Territory 

 Summary I'-^O 



Routes to Ohio 



A colony is inucli more tliaii :t inulinji; i)ost; a colony is a fjjroni) 

 of people devoting tiiejnseives to i)ro(Hiring a living from the 

 soil. No new land is ever permanently occupied until it has 

 been divided into farms. The settlement of Ohio conun(>nced 



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