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What fate did Benjamin Franklin fear if the colonists did not unite to repel the French and Indians?

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Benjamin Franklin feared that if the colonists did not unite to repel the French and Indians, then the colonies would be forever "split," since the French would take more and more land to the east, along the coast. 
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