Answer:
The Albany Plan of Union, was a project that was proposed by Pennsylvania delegate Benjamin Franklin, in 1754, to the Albany Congress in order to establish a unified government for the thirteen colonies to ensure protection for them, and the proper functioning of these colonies, in the face of the threat that was rising with the Seven Years War between France and Great Britain and whose reach was already stirring trouble between the colonies in Canada and America. However, the Plan was rejected not just by the British Crown, as they were already reluctant to accept further empowering the colonies that they were seeing as positively conflicting, but also by the colonials themselves, as they did not wish to relinquish the independent power that each colony had, to give it to a centralized one.
When the Plan was finally rejected, Benjamin Franklin saw, and stated himself, that the failure to adopt this Plan, as a means to ensure the wellbeing of all the colonies, in the name of independent colonial welfare for each of the 13 colonies, demonstrated the division, and the individualistic mindset of American colonists. He also began to realize with it that the British were already foreseeing problems with their colonies and did not wish to hand over any more control to them, by allowing them to set up authority and centralized government institutions that were far from the reach and control of British power.
