What plan for colonial union was adopted at the Albany Congress in 1754?

The plan for colonial union adopted at the Albany Congress in 1754 was the Albany Plan of Union.

Benjamin Franklin proposed the plan during the Albany Congress, held in New York from June 19 to July 11, 1754. The meeting was called partly to coordinate colonial defense and relations with Indigenous nations as war with France approached.

The proposal envisioned a President-General appointed by the Crown and a Grand Council made up of colonial representatives. The union would handle defense, diplomacy, trade regulation, and taxation. Delegates approved it, but the individual colonial legislatures and British authorities rejected it because it threatened existing powers.

The Albany Plan was not the same as Galloway’s Plan of Union, which came later in 1774. Although it never took effect, its ideas influenced the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.