Early Life
This is the year Ben Franklin was born.
What is 1706?
Franklin created this to "get the mail through"
What is the US postal service?
Ben Franklin wrote this book about his life.
What is an autobiography?
What does arduous mean?
Difficult
Antonym of squander
save
Franklin's financial status when he arrived in Philadelphia
What is poor?
This invention by Ben Franklin helped for seeing distances and close up.
What are bifocals?
Ben Franklin started one of the first of these, a place for books that could be circulated.
What is a library?
What does avarice mean?
Greed
Synonym of greed
What is avarice?
The city where Franklin lived since he was 17
What is Philadelphia, PA?
A metal rod that sticks to the top of a building and goes to the ground.
What is the lightning rod?
Ben Franklin was one of the signers of this document.
What is US Constitution or Declaration of Independence?
What is vigilance?
Watchfulness
Antonym of negligence
What is vigilance?
Moral perfection
What was Ben Franklin's life goal in Autobiography?
Iron box that fits inside a fireplace used as a heat source.
What is Franklin stove?
The first postmaster general of the US
Who is Ben Franklin?
What is incorrigible?
Impossible to correct
Synonym of future
What is posterity?
Short sayings with a message
What is an aphorism?
Because of Franklin, Philadelphia was the first city in the colonies to have these
What are street lights?
Franklin wrote this book which contained short bits of advice called aphorisms.
What is Poor Richard's Almanac?
What is posterity?
future generations
Antonym of incorrigible
Curable