Person1706 – 1790

Benjamin Franklin

Philadelphia printer, scientist and diplomat who signed the Declaration and the Constitution and won the French alliance in Paris

Where they went

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1776US Declaration of Independence참여자
Delegates of the thirteen colonies, meeting in Philadelphia, declared independence from Great Britain.
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1777Battles of Saratogadiplomat
Burgoyne’s British army, marching south from Canada along the Hudson, lost two battles at Saratoga and surrendered; the victory brought France into alliance with the United States.
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1783Treaty of Paris (1783)diplomat
Britain recognised American independence and ceded the lands east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes.
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1787Drafting of the US Constitutionparticipant
The Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia drafted the US Constitution, creating a federal government with separated powers — the oldest written national constitution still in use.

George Washington1732 – 1799
Commander of the Continental Army and first US president
John Adams1735 – 1826
Massachusetts lawyer and statesman who championed independence in Congress, negotiated the Treaty of Paris and became the second US president (1797–1801)
Thomas Jefferson1743 – 1826
Virginia statesman who drafted the Declaration of Independence and became the third US president (1801–1809)
John Burgoyne1722 – 1792
British general and playwright who marched south from Canada in 1777 and surrendered at Saratoga
George III1738 – 1820
King of Great Britain (r. 1760–1820), in whose reign the thirteen American colonies won independence

Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence
Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796
The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution
Revolutions and Nation-States1776 – 1871
From the Declaration of Independence to the German Empire — a century in which liberalism and nationalism toppled the old order in Europe and the Americas and built nation-states
The American Revolution1765 – 1789
From the Stamp Act to Washington’s inauguration — thirteen colonies that cried “No taxation without representation” fought Britain for eight years, won their independence and framed a new republic under the Constitution