Benjamin Franklin

Michael Habib10-2

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Benjamin Franklin Career Politics Timeline Beliefs Inventions

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Bonus Question: 5000 pts

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Career: 200• Question:• These were Benjamin Franklin’s Careers. • Answer• What is a politician, writer, musician, scientist,

and an inventor?

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Career: 400• Question:• This was the age of Benjamin Franklin when

he first started working a printer.• Answer• What is 12 Years old?– He worked with his brother and than couldn’t

agree with each other so Franklin went to Philadelphia.

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Career: 600• Question:• This is the first type of company that was ever

to be created by Ben Franklin.• Answer:• What is an Insurance Company?

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Career: 800• Question:• They are the four departments in which

Franklin created to help people in everyday life?

• Answer• What is a fire station, a library, a hospital, and

a police station?

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Career: 1000• Question:• The boy in the famous picture of Benjamin

Franklin flying a kite.

• Answer:• Who is the William Franklin?

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Politics : 200• Question:• This is the Founding Father who Franklin

helped in writing the Declaration of Independence.

• Answer:• Who is Thomas Jefferson?

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Politics : 400• Question:• These were the two documents that he

helped write.• Answer• What is the Constitution and the Declaration

of Independence?

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Politics : 600• Question:• This was Franklin’s position in the

Pennsylvania state assembly.• Answer• What is a clerk?

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Politics : 800• Question:• This was the position was he elected to be

shortly after the shots were fired at the battle of Lexington and Concord.

• Answer:• What is delegate to the Second Continental

Congress?

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Politics : 1000• Question:• This was the unsuccessful plan franklin

created for the intercolonial government to coordinate colonial efforts during the French and Indian War.

• Answer:• What is the Albany Plan?

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Timeline: 200• Question:• This was when and where Franklin was born.• Answer:• What is January 17, 1706 and Boston,

Massachusetts?

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Timeline: 400• Question:• Franklin became this in 1786.• Answer:• What is Governor of Pennsylvania?

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Timeline: 600• Question:• This was the year he get married and had his

first child?• Answer:• What is 1730?

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Timeline: 800• Question:• This was when Franklin died and the age he

was when he when he died.• Answer:• What is April 17, 1990 and 84 years old?

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Timeline: 1000• Question:• This was when he preformed his kite

experiment.• Answer:• What is a stormy June afternoon in 1752?

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Beliefs : 200• Question:• This was the religion he was raised by and

Characterized by in the Library of Congress?• Answer:• What is Episcopalian?

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Beliefs : 400• Question:• This was what Franklin believed Independence

was.• Answer:• What is inevitable?

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Beliefs : 600• Question:• This was what he believed God was.• Answer:• What is only one God and creator of all things

that should be worshiped with adoration, prayed to, and to give thanks to?

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Beliefs : 800• Question:• This was the political party he was a member

of.• Answer:• What is the Federalist Party?

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Beliefs : 1000• Question:• This was the group Franklin established of

like-minded people who would strive towards improving themselves and their society.

• Answer:• What is Junto?

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Inventions: 200• Question:• These were the type of glasses that were

created by Franklin.• Answer:• What are bifocals?– Bifocals allowed someone to see both near and

far.

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Inventions: 400• Question:• Franklin invented this to help people to swim

faster in water?• Answer:• What are Swim Paddles?

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Inventions: 600• Question:• The invention he created to protect a building

from damage due to a lightning strike.• Answer:• What is a Lightning Rod?

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Inventions: 800• Question:• This is the area Franklin Mapped. • Answer:• What is the Map for Gulf Stream?

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Inventions: 1000• Question:• These are four inventions invented by

Franklin.• Answer:• What is the Franklin Stove, lightning rod,

bifocals, and an odometer. – (answers will vary)

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Bonus Question: 5000 pts.

• Question:• These were Franklin’s “Thirteen Virtues” that

he developed for his life. • Answer:• What is temperance, silence, order, resolution,

frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, humility, Tranquility, and chastity?

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Sources• Brands, H. W. The First American: the Life and times of Benjamin Franklin.

New York: Doubleday, 2000. Print.• Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: an American Life. New York: Simon &

Schuster, 2003. Print.• "Benjamin Franklin | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Web. 22

Nov. 2011. <http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/>.• "Quick Biography of Benjamin Franklin." Ushistory.org. Web. 22 Nov.

2011. <http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/index.htm>.• "The World of Benjamin Franklin." Web. 22 Nov. 2011.

<http://www.fi.edu/franklin/>.• "Benjamin Franklin Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story -

Biography.com." Famous Biographies & TV Shows - Biography.com. Web. 22 Nov. 2011. <http://www.biography.com/people/benjamin-franklin-9301234>.