jan 1, 1754 - Albany Plan of Union

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Representatives from several British colonies (not nearly all) meet at a congress at Albany; provides for an intercolonial government and a system for recruiting troops and collecting taxes for the colonies' common defense (spearheaded by Benjamin Franklin); colonists can't ever really agree on the terms, so nothing really happens, but the Plan sets a precedent for a later, more revolutionary congress

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