SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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The Great Gatsby
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Harry Potter
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Poor Richard’s Almanac
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Colonial Digest
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Almanack contained the calendar, weather, poems, sayings and astronomical and astrological information that a typical almanac of the period would contain. Franklin also included the occasional mathematical exercise, and the Almanack from 1750 features an early example of demographics.
Detailed explanation-2: -[Benjamin Franklin], Poor Richard, 1733. Almanack For the Year of Christ 1733 (Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B.
Detailed explanation-3: -He called it Poor Richard’s Almanac. The “author” was Richard Saunders, but it was really Franklin using another pseudonym. Poor Richard presented himself as a slightly dull, but often funny, country fellow who believed in hard work and simple living.
Detailed explanation-4: -The general purpose of Poor Richard’s Almanack was to provide affordable information to common people. Ben Franklin sought to improve the colonies’ morality, monetary status, and virtue. His almanack provided a way to circulate those ideas, values, advice, etc.