What three ideas, combined with suggestions of captain alfred t. manhan, convinced congress to pay for the construction of a modern american navy?

albany plan of union, 1754. the albany plan of union was a plan to place the british north american colonies under a more centralized government

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.