... when a Quaker merchant by the name of Thomas Denham offered him a clerkship in his store in Philadelphia, he decided to return home (#5). Returning to Philadelphia in 1726, he soon owned a newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, and began to print Poor Richard's Almanac. In the Pennsylvania Gazette, a citizen asked editor Franklin the following question: "If A found out that his neighbor B was sleeping with ... adventures of a friendless and humble indirect character continued in Philadelphia and London. Along the journey he established his own printing press, the beginning of a financial ...

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... an apprenticeship with his brother in printing. He eventually moved from Boston to Philadelphia where he bought the Pennsylvania Gazette, and with his improvements turned his investment into a successful newspaper. With this successful newspaper to his name, Ben Franklin had the ability to pursue goals in other fields. Franklin started publishing the Poor Richard's Almanac. Almanacs contained articles with topics including weather ... ...

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... from the Seven Years War when England passed the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act in consecutive years. The Sugar Act was launched in 1764, which attached duties to foreign wine, coffee and textiles imported into the colonies. The following year the Stamp Acct applied, "a tax stamp on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards", [Dig141]. Great Britain ... ...

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... commercial agreements. He traveled throughout Europe and every place he went, he was not only an American diplomat, but also a student of the useful sciences. He took notes on making wine, cheese, planting and harvesting crops, and raising livestock. He sent home to America information on the different cultures, the actual seeds of a variety of grasses not native to America, olive ... ...

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... . Yet, during the next 12 years, the British Parliament didn't just tax for the British army in America, they decided they would also enforce duties on items such as Madeira wine, coffee, molasses, and other products, which came to be known as the Sugar Act. After passing the Sugar Act, Parliament announced it would also be necessary to impose a stamp tax ... ...

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... ; and he was the author of several plans for opposing, more successfully, the unjust de-signs of the mother country. Many of his writing were widely read and circulated. His newspaper articles inveighed reconciliation with Great Britain. He won many converts for radical cause and generally deepened the mood for revolutionary action. He has the honour of having suggested the first ... ...

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... than that of smuggled tea, thus putting smugglers out of business. As a result of these actions taken against them, the colonists created boycotts, petitions like the Boston Tea Party, and newspaper attacks because they were being taxed without representation and they were being deprived their freedoms. In return to these actions, the British imposed the Intolerable Acts, which closed Boston's port ... ...

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