How Did Benjamin Franklin Contribute To Society

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Benjamin Franklin was one of the most influential people in his era as well as today, due to his contribution to what the United States of America became. His capacity to achieve excellence is undoubtable. Franklin was one of the most multifaceted individual of all times. He was a writer, publisher, inventor, Politian (Founding Father) etc. He is an example of one can achieve anything if he/she desires and works hard for it. Despite not being born in a wealthy family, he was able to become of the richest and important person in his era. Moreover, he reminds his son to not lose their humble origins, “from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and in which I passed my earliest years, I have raised myself to a state of affluence and some …show more content…

Franklin was one of the most gifted men who walked on this earth His life’s journey was an inspiration for those who lived in his era. A man who came from almost nothing became one of the most important individuals of all time. For instance, Franklin ideas and deeds helped to shape America into what it has today and made him an inspirational individual, He proposed American’s first organization to exchange knowledge, called the American Philosophical Society. In addition, Franklin founded the college in Pennsylvania, which today the University of Pennsylvania, he influenced people to join the fire department, and created the Pennsylvania …show more content…

However, when the British Parliament refused to take in consideration to Americans complaints, Franklin and others found fathers conducted the revolution, which America become free from the British Empire. The revolution helped to establish a new society, a society free of aristocracy, king. The founding Fathers aimed to create a society where people choose who governs and made them feel comfortable, especially the ordinary people. “Then, early in 1775, franklin received word to death in his family and started home. While he was on the high seas fighting began at Lexington and Concord. Back in Philadelphia he was included a delegate to the second Continental Congress, which included Washington, Adams, and later Jefferson. In June Washington was chosen to commander-in-Chief, and set out for the besieged town of Boston,” (Franklin,