Benjamin Franklin's Impact On The American Revolution

The American Revolution played a catastrophic role in the formation of our country. The America that we know today wasn’t the American it was in the early 1600's and late 1700's. The American Colonists were at continuous war with the British over unfair treatment and harsh laws. The American Revolution was the first time we start to see our Founding Fathers devote their lives and thinking to the formation of a new country free from the British. I have chosen to compose my report revolving around Benjamin Franklin and the impact he had on the American Revolution.
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 17, 1706. He is widely known for his innovations in science, math, and engineering. Growing up into our founding father,
Franklin was not properly educated. Despite this in-adequate education Franklin taught himself and became a successful writer which would be demanded during the time he was advising the draft of the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin eventually became an American diplomat, and inventor, a scientist, and a manifesting voice during the American Revolution.
In the early 1750's Benjamin Franklin composed a strategy to compel the colonies under one central self- government. Unfortunately this idea was revoked, but it did lay down a foundation for the Articles of Confederation. In the late 1750's after his previously failed attempt to unite the colonies, Franklin was sent to London, England as an advocate for the Pennsylvania Assembly. There he collaborated with British officials to rectify the unfair treatment of the colonists back in America. In 1775, Franklin was inducted into the Second Continental Congress which was the governing body of the United States at the time. Benjamin Franklin's writing skills began to reemerge when he was selected to be on the Declaration of Independence committee along with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman. While at war with Britain, the declaration of independence officially declaring the thirteen colonies as independent states. During the American Revolution, Franklin was sent to France as a diplomat asking for France's aid to the States. In 1778, thanks to Benjamin Franklin's help the French signed a military alliance with America supplying the State with money, soldiers, and resources. That same year in 1778, Franklin arranged and outline the Treaty of Paris which officially ended the American Revolutionary War.