Benjamin franklin published in his pennsylvania gazette his most famous cartoon of the colonial era, a disjointed snake, which

promoted the idea that America, if they did not accept the Albany Plan, would be cut apart and die.

Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress. He postulated that if the thirteen colonies did not unite,they would soon be wiped out.