Benjamin Franklin's Accomplishments

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This paper is about everything that we have gone over in the first unit. It will go over some of the major literary accomplishments of this time. This paper should give you some insight to what writing was like in this time period.

One of the very significant writings was that of Benjamin Franklin. In 1729 he bought the Pennsylvania gazette. Through this gazette he was able to get his ideas to everyone in the colonies and back in Europe. The reason I feel that this is an important writing is because it influenced many people to listen to what Franklin had to say the world at this time.

The other document that I feel is very significant to this time is the Declaration of Independence, because it was the colonists trying to get the king of

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