Albany Plan - wikipedia Albany Plan This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2013 ) This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( August 2017 ) The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader ( age 45 ) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. More than twenty representatives of several Northern and Mid-Atlantic colonies had gathered to plan their defense related to the French and Indian War, the front in North America of the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France. The Plan represented one of multiple early attempts to form a union of the colonies `` under one government as far as might be necessary defense and other general important purposes. '' Contents 1 Background 2 Proposals 3 Later plans 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Background The Albany Congress discussed the plan. After a committee reviewed different plans offered by delegates, its members chose Franklin 's plan with some small modifications. Benjamin Chew, then a young lawyer from Dover, Pennsylvania, served as secretary, and Richard Peters and Isaac Norris, both from Philadelphia, were among the members of this committee and the Pennsylvania delegation. It went beyond the original scope of the Congress, which was to develop a plan of defense related to near - term threats by France. The northern colonies were most concerned, as they shared a border with the French colony in Canada, but the mid-Atlantic colonies were also affected by differing loyalties of various Native American nations, usually related to their trading with France or Great Britain. The New England and northern tier colonies had long been subject to raiding from Canada during times of conflict. The Albany Plan was the first proposed unification of the colonies. Proposals The Plan called for a general government to be administered by a President General, to be appointed and supported by the Crown, and a Grand Council to be chosen by the representatives of the colonial assemblies. After the larger group of delegates discussed their issues and objections, they resolved most of them and adopted the Plan. They sent copies of letters to each of the Colonial Assemblies and to the British Board of Trade in London. The colonial assemblies and the British representatives rejected the Albany Plan. Benjamin Franklin wrote of the rejections : `` The colonial assemblies and most of the people were narrowly provincial in outlook, mutually jealous, and suspicious of any central taxing authority. '' Many in the British government, already wary of some of the strong - willed colonial assemblies, disliked the idea of consolidating additional power into their hands. They preferred that the colonies concentrate on their part in the forthcoming military campaign. The Board of Trade never sought official approval for the Plan from the Crown. They proposed that colonial governors, along with some members of their respective councils, order the raising of troops and building of forts, to be funded by the Treasury of Great Britain. This amount would later have to be repaid, and Parliament imposed a tax on the colonies to pay for the defenses in North America. Later plans The Galloway Plan proposed at the First Continental Congress bore striking resemblance to the Albany Plan. It was submitted by conservative Loyalists and quickly rejected in favor of more radical proposals. In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, the Albany Plan of Union inspired some aspects of the draft Articles of Confederation. See also Albany Congress References Jump up ^ The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Second Edition. Yale University Press, 1964. pp. 209 - 210 Jump up ^ The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Second Edition. Yale University Press, 1964. p. 210 Jump up ^ Notes, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Second Edition. Yale University Press, 1964. pp. 210 - 211 Jump up ^ The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Second Edition. Yale University Press, 1964, p. 211 Jump up ^ Union : Joseph Galloway, Plan of Union The Founders ' Constitution, accessed December 11, 2009. Further reading McAnear, Beverly. `` Personal Accounts of the Albany Congress of 1754, '' Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 39, No. 4 ( Mar., 1953 ), pp. 727 -- 746 in JSTOR, primary documents Timothy J. 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Question: who came up with the albany plan of union
Answer: Benjamin Franklin