After the French and Indian War, why did the British try to prevent American colonists from going west? *

A. The British didn't want the colonists to own the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

B. The British didn't want the colonists to mine for gold west of the Appalachian Mountains.

C. The British thought it would be too challenging to regulate trade and taxes.

D. The British Army thought it would be too challenging to fight across the Appalachian Mountains.

D. The British Army thought it would be too challenging to fight across the Appalachian Mountains.

The answer is c because After the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Paris was drawn up, officially ending the war, granting the British a great deal of North American land. The territory that was gained, the Ohio Valley, was between the Appalachian Mountains in the east and the Mississippi River in the west. It gave the British access to important trade routes, but the new land also brought up many new problems.

Even though they fought hard to gain new land during the French and Indian War, the British tried to prevent American colonists from settling in it. It was already hard for them to govern the colonies from overseas. The British believed that if Americans moved west over the mountains, it would be too challenging to regulate trade and taxes, and that their resources would be spread too thin.