Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin was a very important man in U.S. history. He signed each of four major documents of the United States, and conducted experiments on electricity. Ben Franklin was born on Milk Street, January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father owned a candle and soap shop. Everyone referred to his father as a leather apron. Leather aprons were usually carpenters, black smiths, shoemakers and others who made their living producing household goods to sell. Ben Franklin became an apprentice to his brother, also a leather apron, when he was 12 years old. When he was 17 years old he ran away to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
One of the reasons he is most well-known was for discovering electricity. As most people know, he went out one day with a kite and a key tied to the kite in stormy weather. The weather was not actually a lightning storm; it was just a gloomy, cloudy, and windy day. He proved that lightning was a form of electricity and that it could travel through different materials. This one small discovery led to our ability to make our own electricity which we use constantly every day of our lives. Another contribution he made, which not as many people know, is that he signed four of the major documents in U.S. history. The documents are: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution of the U.S.A. If he had not been there to participate in the writing of these documents, the course of history of the United States may have been quite different. Who knows, we may not have even been the United States at all. After these major events in his life, Benjamin Franklin never completely retired. He was always still involved with the government. He also opened a shop where he sold some of his dad’s soap and candles and other items. He ended up starting his own newspaper with his colleagues William Goddard and Joseph Galloway. The newspaper became very well
Ben Franklin was a very important man in U.S. history. He signed each of four major documents of the United States, and conducted experiments on electricity. Ben Franklin was born on Milk Street, January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father owned a candle and soap shop. Everyone referred to his father as a leather apron. Leather aprons were usually carpenters, black smiths, shoemakers and others who made their living producing household goods to sell. Ben Franklin became an apprentice to his brother, also a leather apron, when he was 12 years old. When he was 17 years old he ran away to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
One of the reasons he is most well-known was for discovering electricity. As most people know, he went out one day with a kite and a key tied to the kite in stormy weather. The weather was not actually a lightning storm; it was just a gloomy, cloudy, and windy day. He proved that lightning was a form of electricity and that it could travel through different materials. This one small discovery led to our ability to make our own electricity which we use constantly every day of our lives. Another contribution he made, which not as many people know, is that he signed four of the major documents in U.S. history. The documents are: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution of the U.S.A. If he had not been there to participate in the writing of these documents, the course of history of the United States may have been quite different. Who knows, we may not have even been the United States at all. After these major events in his life, Benjamin Franklin never completely retired. He was always still involved with the government. He also opened a shop where he sold some of his dad’s soap and candles and other items. He ended up starting his own newspaper with his colleagues William Goddard and Joseph Galloway. The newspaper became very well