In the years following independence, the newly-formed United States of America look westward for their expansion, hoping to conquer territory and sell off land to eager European settlers. Its ...

Then, following defeat in the French and Indian War (1754–1763), France ceded the territory to Great Britain in the 1763 Treaty of Paris. ... Map of the Northwest Territory ...

Despite the name "French and Indian War," not all Native Americans fought for the French. Some Indian tribes, such as the Iroquois Confederacy, and the Catawba, fought for the British.

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NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Radium City A tiny, ugly collection of frame bunkhouses and mills squats forlornly on the shore of remote Great Bear Lake, in Canada's Northwest Territories. It is 1,400 ...