Answer:
Explorers wanted to gain the fame that went with finding important new lands or important routes to known lands. The rulers who sent those explorers out to explore wanted the glory of having new lands that they could claim as their own. A final goal (in my view, the most important), was to get rich.
Explanation:
The Albany plan of union failed because it security of independence for Great Britain. It also failed because the government was afraid of losing power, territory, and commerce both to other colonies, and to the British Parliament.
It was controversial because it contained elements and symbols that could be ascribed to communism, and since he believed in them and supported them this became a controversial subject. Especially since Rockefeller was quite the opposite of what communism stands for.
