"This Land is My Land" - Between 1763 and 1789, the use and control of the frontier regions presented problems to both the British and the Americans.

During the years between 1763 and 1789 Great Britain and America encountered much difficulty while trying to claim control over the frontier regions west of the Appalachian Mountains. However, their struggle for supremacy over the land was not new by any stretch; Britain and America had been battling one another to dominate the lands from the time before the American Revolution through the time up until the Critical Period. Their ongoing contest and lust for more land …

…America, and the British were beginning to try to influence the Native Americans to attack the western settlers. Great Britain and America's greed for land proved to be the origin of many problems that developed on the frontier. However, they soon realized the frontier was wild and untamed, just like the newly born America. America may have escaped the British rule, but the problems of the frontier still followed her into her newly won independence.