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Essay Archive - Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union
The reason behind Franklin's Albany Plan of Union is the French and
Indian War. The French and Indian War started because British colonists
were said to be moving in on territory that the French had claimed for
themselves. Then, in 1753, the French started constructing a chain of
forts connecting Lake Erie with the Ohio River. This caused the governor
of Virginia to send George Washington, who was a 21-year-old surveyor from
Virginia, to warn the French in the Ohio Valley that the land belonged to
the British. As it turns out, the land was originally granted to Virginia
by the....
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