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tried to start French colonies in the St. Lawrence River valley in the 1540's, ... 
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Wages: Plantation owners could make over 1,000 (British pounds) a year. A 
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speculation, the nuisance turned serious in 1753 when word of French Forts ... to 
proceed with building English forts on the Ohio River and to send a mission to 
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Question: In 1753, concerned over French fort-building in the Ohio Valley, Virginia sent this 21-year-old to check things out
Answer: George Washington