Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin

• By Mrs. Calvillo-Morales

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Life of Benjamin Franklin

• 1706-1790
• He became famous for being a scientist, an
  inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher,
  a musician, and an economist
• One of our Founding Fathers

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Early Life

• Loved to read and collect books
• Had his own printing shop
• Pennsylvania Gazette
• Poor Richards Almanack
• invented many things, including
• Swim fins, bifocals, a glass armonica, watertight
  bulkheads for ships, the lightning rod, an
  odometer, and the wood stove (called the Franklin
  stove).

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Government

• clear vision of the way things should be, and his
  skill in both writing and negotiating, helped him
  to shape the future of the United States of
  America
• the only person to have signed all four of the
  documents which helped to create the United
  States
• the Declaration of Independence (1776)
• the Treaty of Alliance, Amity, and Commerce with
  France (1778)
• the Treaty of Peace between England, France, and
  the United States (1782)
• the Constitution (1787)
• helped to write parts of the Declaration of
  Independence and the Constitution

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Resources

• http//www.fi.edu/franklin/birthday/k12.html
• http//bensguide.gpo.gov/benfranklin/printer.html
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thum
  b/2/25/Franklin-Benjamin-LOC.jpg/240px-Franklin-Be
  njamin-LOC.jpg