Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
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Bens Boyhood

• Ben was born on
• Jan.17,1706, in a
• small cottage on Milk
• Street.
• His parents were
• Abiah and Josiah
• Franklin, and he had 16 siblings.

• When he was young, he wanted to be a sailor.
• He worked for his brother in a printing shop.
  Later on he started writing to his brother
  calling himself Silence Dogood so his brother
  wouldnt get mad. Later he ran away to
  Philadelphia
• and formed his own print shop.

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Bens Early Adulthood

• Seven years after he moved to Philadelphia, Ben
  married Deborah Read, helped organize Americas
  first library, and wrote the first Poor Richards
  Almanac all in 3 years!

• Four years later, he helped form a volunteer fire
  team and proved that lighting was a form of
  energy.

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Bens later Adulthood

• In 1766,he helped convince the Parliament to
  cancel the Stamp Act.
• The next year he helped Jefferson write the
  Declaration of Independence and the
  Constitution.

• Through all of his life he was Writer, Scientist,
  inventor and diplomat
• Ben lived to be 84 years old, and he died on
  April 17, 1790.

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Inventions Ben Invented

• BIFOCALS
• ELECTRICITY
• LIGHTNING ROD
• PAVEMENT
• FRANKLIN STOVE
• ODOMETER
• MAGIC SQUARES
• AND MORE

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Amazing Leadership

• Renowned for his enterprising nature, his hard
  working attitude and his skills for both writing
  and negotiation, Franklin had a strong sense of
  how things should be and gained the cooperation
  of others by honoring them with the credit that
  they were due. Bens name and reputation will
  live forever not only in his history books, but
  in his inventions, discoveries, improvements and
  methods he had devised during his eighty- four
  year stay in the fields of politics, science and
  humanity. What would the world be like today
  without Benjamin Franklin

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Timeline

• 1706- Ben was born in Boston Massachusetts, on
  Jan. 17, 1706.
• 1716- Began working in his fathers candle shop.
• 1718- Became an apprentice for his brother James,
  a printer.
• 1723- Ran away to Philadelphia and began working
  as a printer.
• 1730- Married Deborah Read
• 1731- Helped organize Americas first library
• 1732- Wrote the first Poor Richards Almanac.
• 1736- Helped form a volunteer fire fighting team.
• 1740- Helped start a school that became
  University of Pennsylvania, invented the Franklin
  stove
• 1752- Proved lightning was a form of electrical
  energy
• 1766- Helped convince the parliament to cancel
  the Stamp Act.
• 1773- Boston Tea Party
• 1775- Revolutionary War
• 1776- Helped Jefferson write the Declaration of
  Independence
• 1783- Signed the Constitution
• 1790- Died on April 17th

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Citations

• Ben Franklins Almanac By Candace Fleming
• Harcourt Social Studies book pg.211-221
• Learning Links

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The End

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