SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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militia
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prosperity
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apprentice
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farmer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Franklin worked with his friends at the Assembly to pass a volunteer militia law and make provisions for the security of the colony. He wrote and published an article named “Plain Truth” in the Pennsylvania Gazette. In it he outlined the need of union and discipline for their own defense.
Detailed explanation-2: -Franklin returned to Philadelphia in 1775. There he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he was instrumental in drafting the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation to form a new union.
Detailed explanation-3: -In New York, Benjamin applied for work to a printer, William Bradford, who advised him to go to Philadelphia, where Bradford’s son Andrew, also a printer, had recently lost his helper; so Benjamin started by boat to travel the 100 miles to Philadelphia.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the American Revolution, he served in the Second Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He was paramount in obtaining support from King Louis XVI of France and was largely responsible for his signing the important military alliance of 1778.