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Title: Albany Plan of Union


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Albany Plan of Union
  • 1754

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AIM
  • What was the Albany Plan of Union?
  • Do Now What is a political cartoon?

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Ben Franklin
Everyone cries a union is necessary. But when
they come to the manner and form of the union,
their weak noodles are perfectly distracted.
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First Political Cartoon
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Albany Congress
  •   Albany Congress Meeting of
    delegates/representatives from 7 colonies and the
    6 Iroquois nations in Albany, NY in 1754
  •  Organized by Ben Franklin of PA

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Albany Plan of Union
  •   2 Goals 1). Get guarantee of Iroquois help
    against French, 2). Organize a united defense
    against the French
  • REMEMBER, THE COLONIES ARE NOT A COUNTRY YET
    ENGLAND IS FAR AWAY---JUST A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT
    COLONIES

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Results of Plan of Union
  •   Plan called for GRAND COUNCIL with reps from
    each colony.
  •   Council would have power to make laws, raise
    taxes, organize common defense
  •    Delegates all agreed and voted to accept Plan
    of Union

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Results continued. . .
  •   However, it was rejected by all 7 colonial
    assemblies
  •   No colony wanted to give up government power
    to central government authority
  •   This is a hint of troubles to come after the
    Revolution
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