EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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He wrote poems and plays supporting American independence.
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He led Patriots in throwing tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.
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He helped gain French support for American independence.
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He made a daring ride to warn colonists of British arrival.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In February 1778, the French signed a military alliance with America and went on to provide soldiers, supplies and money that proved critical to America’s victory in the war. As minister to France starting in 1778, Franklin helped negotiate and draft the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-2: -Benjamin Franklin primarily served as the editor of the Declaration of Independence. His changes were believed to have been minimal, but, when the document went before the entire Continental Congress, the draft was more thoroughly changed by the larger body from Jefferson’s original text.
Detailed explanation-3: -Arguably the single most important of Benjamin Franklin’s many contributions to his nation was securing a French alliance during the revolution. Without the financial and military assistance provided by France, the colonists would certainly have fared much worse against the mighty British empire.
Detailed explanation-4: -Benjamin Franklin’s popularity in France bolstered French support for the American cause. The French public viewed Franklin as a representative of republican simplicity and honesty, an image Franklin cultivated.
Detailed explanation-5: -He began to secure aid for the British Army and American Loyalists and create an unofficial spy network of civilian Loyalists. A supporter of guerilla warfare, he organized the Associated Loyalists that used guerilla tactics to fight Patriots in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.