https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t en-us 2019-02-22 16:51:42 UTC 2024-06-03 21:56:58 UTC hello@padlet.com willch05 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334276461 Franklin suggested that Philadelphia should have a fire-fighting clubs modeled after the ones in Boston.

]]> 2019-02-22 18:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334276461 strija79 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334277048 Almost all of the founding fathers owned salves including Ben Franklin who owned two slaves, George and King.]]> 2019-02-22 18:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334277048 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334277667 The Insurance Ben-efactor is basically like modern day insurance. Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea for people to give equal payments to become insurance if ever their property caught fire.

]]> 2019-02-22 18:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334277667 strija79 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334277746 Both slaves worked as personal servants, as for Ben Franklin's paper commonly ran notices involving sales and purchase contracts of slaves.]]> 2019-02-22 18:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334277746 hackja05 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334278268 Ben Franklin was a gregarious (sociable) person, who loved sitting down and having long conversations with friends and acquaintances.]]> 2019-02-22 18:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334278268 willch05 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334278764 He organized the Union Fire Company in 1736.]]> 2019-02-22 18:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334278764 hackja05 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334279895 Franklin proposed that the group be compromised of "ingenious men"--a physician, mathematician, a geographer, a natural philosopher, a botanist, a chemist, and a "mechanician" (engineer)--who lived throughout the colonies.]]> 2019-02-22 18:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334279895 willch05 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334991814 Members have to provide at least two buckets for carrying water and several cloth bags for carrying items rescued from the fire.]]> 2019-02-25 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334991814 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334992045 During the first year of operations 143 policies were written. No insured properties caught fire in the first year of operations.]]> 2019-02-25 17:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334992045 strija79 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334992384 Like most people Ben also thought that African slaves and their offspring were inferior to white Europeans and that they couldn't be educated]]> 2019-02-25 17:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334992384 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334993034 Ben Franklin proposedinsurance for widows, orphans, and crops.]]> 2019-02-25 17:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334993034 willch05 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334993620 Members of the fire company pledged to help one another if fire broke out or if it threatened one of their homes or businesses.]]> 2019-02-25 17:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334993620 strija79 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334994003 Some think that Ben Franklin's beliefs in abolitionist was too hastily influenced by the British. ]]> 2019-02-25 17:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334994003 hackja05 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334995505 Franklin organized a group of friends to provide a structured forum for discussion. The group was called Junto.

]]> 2019-02-25 17:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334995505 strija79 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334996529 Ben Franklin soon joined as the President of an abolitionist group founded a decade earlier by the Pennsylvania Quakers. ]]> 2019-02-25 17:53:22 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334996529 strija79 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334999289 Ben Franklin realized that freed slaves couldn't fend for themselves without help. So he became part of a movement to help educate freed slaves in a public announcement.....
"Address to the Public"]]> 2019-02-25 17:57:52 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334999289 hackja05 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334999579 The evening meetings were organized around a series of questions that Ben devised which covered a range of intellectual, personal, business, and community topics.]]> 2019-02-25 17:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334999579 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334999998 Benjamin Franklin met with some fire-fighting companies in 1751 to discuss the formations of a fire insurance company. The final decision was made to make the company in May 1752.]]> 2019-02-25 17:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/334999998 hackja05 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335003985 2019-02-25 18:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335003985 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335006075 Franklin helped found a lot of organizations and institutions-fire fighting clubs, libraries, and insurance companies. ]]> 2019-02-25 18:08:58 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335006075 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335008787 Of all of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin signed all three of the major documents that freed the colonies from British rule and established the United States as an independent nation.]]> 2019-02-25 18:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335008787 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335010729 Ben Franklin was appointed in 1776 by the continental congress to a committee charged with drafting a formal document to justify the colonies. ]]> 2019-02-25 18:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335010729 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335012947 Franklin did review Jefferson's draft but only made a few slight changes. However, when the draft was sent to Congress many sentences where either deleted or changed to Jefferson's dismay. ]]> 2019-02-25 18:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335012947 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335013452 After several drafts, Congress finally decided to approve the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Although the actual document wasn't signed until August, when Benjamin Franklin signed his name along with the fifty-five other representatives of the thirteen colonies.]]> 2019-02-25 18:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335013452 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335015778 In 1781, Benjamin Franklin was in France. He had been in Paris since 1776 as Minister to France.]]> 2019-02-25 18:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335015778 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335016616 The constitution was completed in September of 1787. Franklin wrote an impassioned speech, in which he used his persuasive powers to urge all delegates to sign the Constitution.]]> 2019-02-25 18:26:27 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335016616 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335052767 The American Philosophical Society stills exists 200 years later. ]]> 2019-02-25 19:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335052767 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335054259 The American Philosophical Society was a outgrowth of the Junto. ]]> 2019-02-25 19:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335054259 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335056147 Members of the fire company pledged to help one another should fire break out or threaten one of their homes or businesses.]]> 2019-02-25 19:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335056147 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335056545 Members were not required to help protect properties of non-members,]]> 2019-02-25 19:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335056545 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335057515 Ben wrote a letter to his friend telling that he concieved a higher opinion of the capacities of the black race and that their docility in every respect equal to that of the white children]]> 2019-02-25 19:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335057515 https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335060438 The original twenty-five members of the group met once a month to discuss fire-fighting techniques, to establish company policies, and, of course , to socialize.]]> 2019-02-25 19:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wellsc1/r03rhavsvl0t/wish/335060438