alleryStart learning →Who drafted the Albany Plan of Union put before the colonies in 1754?
AThomas Jefferson
BRichard Henry Lee
CBenjamin Franklin
DJohn Dickinson
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Benjamin Franklin
1. The Albany Congress met to settle Indian grievances but went further and called for a colonial union.
2. Benjamin Franklin drafted the plan the delegates adopted there.
3. It gave a president appointed by the King a grand council of delegates chosen by the assemblies.
4. Jefferson and Lee both belong to the independence debates of the 1770s, not to Albany in 1754.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section FIRST STIRRING OF UNITY_
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