The French and Indian War began because some American colonists felt that: a. taxes were too high, so they solicited help from both the French and the Indians. b. they had to aid the English, who were fighting Napoleon in Europe. c. the Indians along the frontier finally had to be subdued. d. French Jesuits were converting too many Indians to Catholicism, endangering the Protestant majority on the North American continent. e. France was encroaching on land claimed by the Ohio Company.