1. Ben Franklin and the Enlightenment Standard 8.17

2. What was the Enlightenment?
The Age of Reason
People began examining the natural world, society and government.

3. The Enlightenment: Age of Knowledge and Reason
John Locke thought that people had natural rights such as equality and liberty.

4. Baron de Montesquieu
-Believed in a separation of powers

5. What does that have to do with the colonies?
Enlightenment influenced colonial leaders
Encouraged people to think and question beliefs

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7. Benjamin Franklin
-diplomat, philosopher, inventor, scientist, and businessman. -He wrote letters, articles, pamphlets, scientific papers, and an autobiography.

8. Ben Franklin’s Autobiography
[T] here are some books that never lose their appeal They are as vivid and interesting today as they ever were, and they will continue to be so until humanity itself has changed Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is one of these. It is the first American success story. —from the introduction of a 1941 edition of the autobiography, published by Walter J. Black, New York

9. Ben Franklin’s Autobiography
-Only time Franklin wrote about
himself
-not chronological
-tells of his rise from poverty to
prominence.
-Written over a span of 18 years

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

11. Achievements of Ben Franklin
Franklin stove
Bifocal lenses
1st police force
1st Fire Department
1st Fire insurance policy
Lending library
street lights
Daylight Savings Time Lightning rod Poor Richard’s Almanac University of Pennsylvania

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