The war led Benjamin Franklin to draw a famed political cartoon.

Delegates from 7 of the 13 British colonies gathered at Albany, New York, weeks into the war to talk about the escalating danger and their combined defense.

Benjamin Franklin, a delegate from Pennsylvania, proposed a unified colonial government at the Albany Congress that would have comprised a legislative of delegates chosen by provincial assemblies and an administrative branch led by a president-general nominated by the British monarch.

Benjamin Franklin published a political cartoon showing the colonies as pieces of a dismembered, writhing snake in order to inspire the colonies to band together in the fight against the French. "Join, or perish," stated the caption. It was the first political cartoon in American history, appearing on May 9th, 1754 in his Pennsylvania Gazette. Prior to the American Revolution, the cartoon would gain popularity once more as colonists rallied to oppose British taxing measures.