Read the passage and answer the question below. “This is the Country, which the French have many Years envied us, and which they have been long meditating to make themselves Masters of: They are at length come to a Resolution to attack us. . . in one of the best of those Colonies, Virginia; and in that part of it which lies on the River Ohio. . . . The French however if they find their Way to the Coast of Virginia, will easily over-run the provinces, because each Province considers itself as independence of the Rest, and the Invaders from Canada all act under one Governor; to unite 13 Provinces which fill an Extent of 1600 Miles is not easy. . . . Canada must be subdued.” The Maryland Gazette, 1755.

According to the excerpt, what caused the conflict between the French and the British?

Choose 1

(Choice A) competing claims to colonial land

(Choice B) British encroachment into colonial Florida

(Choice C) invasion of French troops into Britain

(Choice D) British support of French revolutionaries