"That humble application be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America, including all the said colonies, within and under which government each colony may retain its present constitution... A President-General, to be appointed and supported by the Crown; and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the representatives of the people." — Benjamin Franklin, Albany Plan of Union, 1754
The Albany Plan was proposed primarily in response to which immediate development?
- A
The collapse of the Dominion of New England in 1689
- B
Parliament's passage of the Stamp Act earlier that year
- C
A coordinated Cherokee-Creek invasion of Pennsylvania
- Dcheck_circle
The outbreak of frontier conflict between Britain and France over the Ohio Valley
Explanation
The Albany Congress met in summer 1754 to coordinate defense and Iroquois diplomacy as Anglo-French clashes erupted in the Ohio Valley. The Stamp Act came in 1765, no such Cherokee-Creek invasion occurred, and the Dominion of New England had collapsed two generations earlier.