https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h en-us 2021-10-01 14:36:12 UTC 2024-06-02 05:18:13 UTC hello@padlet.com 22byrda https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784376722 Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of 17 children.]]> 2021-10-01 14:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784376722 22byrda https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784382081 Retired from being a printer- a trade that made him very successful ]]> 2021-10-01 14:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784382081 22byrda https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784390695 Became a city alderman in Philadelphia.]]> 2021-10-01 14:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784390695 22byrda https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784396073 he was named deputy postmaster general of Britain’s North American colonies; he
was thus in charge of mail in all of the northern colonies.]]> 2021-10-01 14:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784396073 22byrda https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784402123 Franklin traveled to Britain as the representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly; he spent most of the next 18 years living in London. By this time he was widely known throughout Europe—his
writings and his electrical experiments had brought him widespread fame.]]> 2021-10-01 14:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784402123 22byrda https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784407324 He returned to America in 1775, and although some colonists distrusted him—he had been living abroad for so long that some feared he was a British spy—he was elected to the Second Continental Congress. With Thomas Jefferson and three other delegates, Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence.]]> 2021-10-01 14:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784407324 22byrda https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784413198 Franklin helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.]]> 2021-10-01 14:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784413198 22byrda https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784418614 He was a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention]]> 2021-10-01 14:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784418614 22byrda https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784421457 Franklin died at age 84.]]> 2021-10-01 14:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/22byrda/dkrucvc5xfqu889h/wish/1784421457