Early Life
Activity that Ben Franklin enjoyed in his childhood
What is swimming/playing in the water/inventing water equipment?
To avoid or have avoidance toward.
What is aversion?
First civic organizations that he founded: (5 aswers)
What are the firefighting company,hospital,street cleaning,street lights, and lending library?
Number of nations in the confederacy.
What are silver shoe and knee buckles, wigs, & shirts made of linen,.
His father's response to Ben and friends building a wharf with stolen stones. (Direct Quote)
What is, "Nothing was useful that was not honest."?
Series of events.
What is succession?
Invention that prevents houses from catching fire during storms.
What is a lightning rod?
Type of government of the Iroquois Confederacy.
What is cooperative representation?
What did Ben Franklin say, "warmed the mind?"
What is conversation?
Ben's father's enterprise.
What is soap and candle making?
Not asked for.
What is unsolicited?
Invention that helps people read up close.
What are bifocals?
Names of 3 of the nations that belonged to the Iroquois Confederacy.
What are Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca?
Hi nickname, given his portly size.
What is Dr. Fatsides?
How old Ben was when his first essay was published.
What is 16?
Expenses
What are expenditures?
Name of city in England where he learned about printing techniques and writing.
What is London?
Names of 3 of the OTHER nations that belonged to the Iroquois Confederacy.
What are the Cayugas,Tuscaroras,Onondagas?
Ben Franklin's mission while in London.
What is to resolve the dispute between the Penn family and the Pennsylvania Assembly?
The city Ben lived in as a child/early teen.
What is Boston?
The owner of a business.
What is a proprietor?
Name of a publication that contained vast amounts of information from weather patterns to time tables.
What is Poor Richard's Almanac?
Name of the city where a conference was arranged to talk with the Iroquois Confederacy.
The name of the instrument Ben Franklin designed.
What is a glass armonica?