Benjamin Franklin for Kids: The Amazing Founding Father, Scientist, and Inventor Who Changed American History Forever

Benjamin Franklin was a great writer, inventor, and scientist who is one of the Founding Fathers of America. Ben helped start the United States by being one of the writers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Ben also liked to help his fellow citizens in whatever way he could. In fact, he organized one of America's first public libraries and first fire department. He even started a public hospital!

Thanks to Ben, Americans were also able to start their new country in peace. He did this by negotiating the 1783 Treaty of Paris.

This treaty ended the Revolutionary War with Great Britain and meant that the United States was now really a country of its own.

Read on and discover all this and much more. You will find out why Benjamin Franklin is one of the most important people in American history.