Benjamin Franklin, one of the most important people of the new American Dream was born in Boston in January 1706 to a tradesman and a homemaker. It seemed unlikely that Benjamin Franklin would succeed in becoming one of the shapers of the American dream. Josiah Franklin, his father, a young Dyer in England with his first wife Anne and his three children, Josiah, Hanna, Samuel, and Elizabeth left England and came to Boston in 1683. In the …
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…use still to this day such as battery, positive and negative charge. Among the other things he had a great political career. He helped persuade the French into helping the American patriots in the war. Still as inventive in his elderly state Franklin went on to invent the bifocals and conducted many more experiments and inventions. To sum things up I think that Benjamin Franklin was one of the main shapers of the American dream.