| Benjamin Franklin's Achievements |
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| Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the United States of America. Ben Franklin was a famous polymath, with expertise in a great many areas. He discovered electricity through his famous kite experiment. He served as the United States minister to France as well as to Sweden. He was the president of Pennsylvania in the late 1780s. He served as America's first postmaster general. He tracked and studied the currents of the Atlantic Ocean. Click here to enlarge this image. |
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| UNIT I: | Early America | UNIT IX: | Discontent and Reform | ||
| UNIT II: | Colonial Period | UNIT X: | War, Prosperity, and Depression | ||
| UNIT III: | American Revolution | UNIT XI: | New Deal and World War II | ||
| UNIT IV: | New National Government | UNIT XII: | Postwar America | ||
| UNIT V: | Westward Expansion | UNIT XIII: | Decades of Change | ||
| UNIT VI: | Sectional Conflict | UNIT XIV: | New Conservatism | ||
| UNIT VII: | Civil War and Reconstruction | UNIT XV: | Into the Twenty-first Century | ||
| UNIT VIII: | Growth and Transformation | UNIT XVI: | Polarization and Deglobalization |
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