Benjamin Franklin's Achievements

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Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the United States of America. Ben Franklin was a famous polymath, with expertise in a great many areas. He discovered electricity through his famous kite experiment. He served as the United States minister to France as well as to Sweden. He was the president of Pennsylvania in the late 1780s. He served as America's first postmaster general. He tracked and studied the currents of the Atlantic Ocean. Click here to enlarge this image.

	UNIT I:		Early America	UNIT IX:	Discontent and Reform
	UNIT II:		Colonial Period	UNIT X:	War, Prosperity, and Depression
	UNIT III:		American Revolution	UNIT XI:	New Deal and World War II
	UNIT IV:		New National Government	UNIT XII:	Postwar America
	UNIT V:		Westward Expansion	UNIT XIII:	Decades of Change
	UNIT VI:		Sectional Conflict	UNIT XIV:	New Conservatism
	UNIT VII:		Civil War and Reconstruction	UNIT XV:	Into the Twenty-first Century
	UNIT VIII:		Growth and Transformation	UNIT XVI:	Polarization and Deglobalization

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