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Benjamin Franklin was born 1706. |
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, MA |
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Benjamin Franklin founded Philadelphia’s first police force and fire department |
Franklin was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
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Benjamin’s father was a candle maker and soap boiler |
Franklin was 12 when he helped his father out |
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When Franklin was 17, he was into the printing business |
When Franklin wrote letters to the newspaper, he used the pen name Silence Dogood |
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Benjamin took a chatty moralizing widow woman on while doing this. |
In 1773, Benjamin left Boston and went to Philadelphia, PA |
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Benjamin meets Deborah Reed, who he will later marry |
Deborah refers to him as papi |
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When he first arrived in Philadelphia, he fell asleep in a quaker meeting house |
While in the city, he founded the Pennsylvania Gazette |
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Benjamin wrote the book Poor Richard’s Almanack |
He gathered with other thinkers and shared philosophical ideas called the Junto Club |
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He improved and made the Franklin Stove |
Benjamin invented the lightning rod |
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Benjamin and his son discovered electricity while flying a kite |
Franklin has a dispute with William Keith, who happened to be the heir to William Penn |
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Before the issue of the Hutchinson Papers in 1772, Franklin was an English supporter. England (1774) and verbally attacked, he returns to America, American Revolutionary |
The Hutchinson Papers had to do with Bostonians petition and removal of Royal Governor, Thomas Hutchinson. |
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In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson originally wrote, “We hold these truths to be undeniable.” Franklin advised Jefferson to change it to self evident |
Upon signing the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock said, “We must all hang together.” Franklin followed saying “We must all hang together or separately. |
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Bejamin died in 1790, 84 years old. |
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