Resistance to imperial authority slowly begins in individual American colonial legislatures.
Colonial assemblies began to resemble small parliaments, each practically as sovereign within its colony as Parliament in England.
There were great appeals for colonial unity as each colony was like a small country unto itself.
The first proposition for the colonial assemblies to unite was known as the Albany Plan in 1754. Interestingly, NONE of the 13 colonies approved of this plan. The French & Indian War (1754 - 1763) cements England's commercial and colonial role in N. America and the world. It also raises underlying tensions in the colonial relationship between the American colonists and England.