The founding fathers created the foundation for our young United States. They were the people who shaped this country into the land of the free and home of the brave. Benjamin Franklin, the model of a successful American, never missed his time to shine or to make money for a happy and productive life. When I hear the amazing things Benjamin Franklin did I see an American who made big moves in political, social, economic ways. Benjamin Franklin, the man who forever changed the United States of America. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was drafted by the framers, but one man who majorly helped draft this document was Benjamin Franklin. This was one of the biggest milestones in American history and just one of the great accomplishments that Benjamin Franklin built. After drafting the Declaration of Independence he was sent to sail the seas and …show more content…
When he arrived in Paris, “he was welcomed with great enthusiasm, for his fame had preceded him—fame not as a statesman but as a scientist.” He was known as the “Newton of electricity.” When negotiating the Treaty of Paris, he was the man that gave us the winning factor of gaining France’s support in the War for Independence. One of Franklin’s famous mottos was, “Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” I believe that this quote is something Benjamin Franklin lived by throughout his life. In 1757, he was sent to London by the Pennsylvania Assembly to sway the Penns into paying the war debts that they owed. He was praised by two notable colleges, University of Edinburgh and University of Oxford, by bill taxing the Penns family for the lands they owned. In 1764, the assembly thought that the colonies should