Benjamin Franklin
Vocabulary
Colonial Women
Aphorisms
This and That
100
Boston
Where was Ben Franklin born?
100
following
What is subsequent?
100
13 or 14
What is the age when colonial girls usually married?
100
fleas
What is if you lie down with dogs you'll wake up with these?
100
the 1700's
What years were in the 18th century?
200
Franklin started writing this at age 65
What is his autobiograpy?
200
difficult
What is arduous?
200
beat their wives
What crime could husband legally commit?
200
fish and visitors
What is stink after three days?
200
saw God as a clockmaker
Who are the rationalists? (Sir Isaac Newton)
300
Philadelphia
Where did Franklin run away to?
300
correctness
What is rectitude?
300
more than 300
How many letters did Abigail Adams write her husband?
300
if two of them are dead
What is when can three keep a secret?
300
saw God as actively and mysteriously involved in the workings of the universe
Who were the Puritans?
400
the name of Franklin's almanac
What is Poor Richard's?
400
make easier
What is facilitate?
400
stolen from her home in West Africa
Who is Phillis Weatley?
400
hedges
What is love your neighbor but don't pull these down?
400
the belief that human beings can arrive at the truth by using reason
What is rationalism?
500
temperance, silence, order
What were te first three virtues that Franklin was going to work on
500
harsh, cruel, unjust
What is tyrannical?
500
poetry
What genre of literature is Wheatley best known for?
500
if a man could have half his wishes
What is he would double his trouble?
500
wrote first scholarly essay on medicine in America
Who is Cotton Mather?
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