Albany Congress

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noun

American History.

1. a meeting of delegates from seven American colonies, held in 1754 at Albany, New York, at which Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan AlbanyPlanofUnion for unifying the colonies.

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Albany Congress

Eleven years after the Albany Congress, upon the news that parliament had passed the Stamp Act, a congress of nine colonies assembled at New York in October, 1765, to take action thereon.

From Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by John Fiske

After the Albany Congress of 1754 Franklin urged the formation of two barrier colonies in the West.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

It was he who had submitted the plan of union to the Albany Congress in 1754, which with modifications was recommended by that congress for adoption.

From The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union by Max Farrand

Important also was the Albany Congress of 1754, in which delegates from seven colonies came together and discussed Benjamin Franklin's scheme for federating the thirteen colonies.

From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. Hayes

From the outbreak of King William's War, in 1689, to 1754, the date of the Albany Congress, there were at least a dozen intercolonial conferences called to consider means for the common defense.

From Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by J.A. James

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