BOOK
Name: Tiffany Chow Per.6th
Source # 7
Build your own: Fleming, Candace. Ben Franklin’s Almanac. New York: Atheneum, 2003. Print
Notes:
Pg.70
Response:
After arriving in Philadelphia on May 6, 1776, Ben became a
delegate to the Second Continental Congress, in less than twentyfour hours. Benjamin Franklin was the oldest out of the Congress,
he was sixty-nine. The Congress was to talk about independence
from England but most of the delegates did not even consider it
but Franklin was in favor of the plan.
Pg.72
By June 1776 most of the delegates of the Second Constitutional
Congress agreed to independence from England. They chose five
delegates to write a document declaring independence. They
chose Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert R. Livingston,
Roger Sherman and Benjamin Franklin. Franklin would not write
the document due to that he had been very sick.
Pg.75
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress approved
Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. Historians
believe that John Hancock, who was the president of the
Congress, signed his name first. Then on August 2, altogether Ben
and the other fifty-five delegates signed the Declaration of
Independence.