Answer:although I cannot give you the full answer, I can give you some pointers. Do some research on America in the 1800s so you have some way to describe it, pretend you’re writing to a sibling, or maybe a parent. Make it seem real. Find a country that had the most immigrants coming from, to make it easier . I hope I helped :)
IN this quote Benjamin Franklin is referencing the failed "Albany Plan," since this was his idea, in which the colonies would have formed a loose union in order to better manage taxes.
A.D means in our time (Anno Domini, the year of our lord) and B.C means Before Christ - these two and the other mentioned words are used to B. refer to periods of time.