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Benjamin Franklin was elected to go to England so that he could try to convince the government to let the colonies make their own rules, etc. He had a very interesting journey to get there. First, he needed to travel to New York so that he could catch a ship
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Benjamin Franklin heard of many villages being destroyed and the people in them being slaughtered by Indians, so he decided to do something about it. After thinking for a bit and conferring with his friends, they decided that he should convince people to come and help him build some forts
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The English government decided to send one of their most able generals, Braddock, to the colonies in North America because the French were preparing to attack the English colonies. There was only one problem: transportation. The British army needed to be able to carry large amounts of food, weapons, and
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Benjamin Franklin heard about the war that France and Spain had going on with England, and he decided to draw up a plan to defend Philadelphia. He succeeded in convincing the government to marshal a militia, and soon, the men were trained and ready. Ben had just started patting himself
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Benjamin Franklin wanted to be morally perfect, so he devised a schedule to attain that goal. He listed thirteen qualities that he needed to attain for moral perfection. He made a calendar with the qualities on it and tried to perfect one each week. He also made a plan for
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After Ben got the press and paid it off, he decided to get married. Ben's first girlfriend could not marry him because her parents did not approve of it. After all, the printing business was not considered a good one. Later, his girlfriend and her family moved out
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After Ben Franklin came back from England, he thought he was set as a merchant, but then his boss dies and Ben goes back to being a printer. He worked for the same man that he was employed by before he went to England, but soon quits because of maltreatment.
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After working a while for a printer in Pennsylvania, Benjamin was ready to go to London to get his printing press. Ben went to London because the governor of Philadelphia told him that he would buy him a printing press, he just had to take some letters to put the
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After Benjamin Franklin went to Philadelphia, he got a job at a printing house, where he worked with its owner doing different things, such as typesetting, sometimes writing articles, and other odd jobs. Sometime later, he had to back home for his father to make sure he was safe. He
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After leaving his apprenticeship with his brother, Benjamin Franklin went to Philadelphia to get hired by a printer and hopefully start his own business there. He used a boat to get from Boston to New York City, but on the way there, the boat crashed into a reef and started
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Benjamin Franklin was very interested in books, so his father apprenticed him to his older brother at age 12. The reason why he did this was because the older brother (named James) was a printer, and Ben's father thought that being a printer would give him a good
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Benjamin Franklin and his friends liked to fish in a small pond in the forest. Unluckily, they went there so many times that the pond became a quagmire. Ben had a really good idea, he and some friends would use a pile of rocks laying nearby to build a small