Laws that punished the colonies for resisting British authority A. Coercive Acts
B. Sugar Acts
C. Townshend Acts
D. Stamp Acts

A. Coercive Acts

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Wanting to limit British influence along their frontier, the French built a string of forts from Lake Erie towards the forks of the Ohio (present-day Pittsburgh). Because rivers were so important to transportation, the forks of the Ohio was a strategically important location, one that both nations wanted to control.