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- As a child, he was yanked from school by his father to work for his temperamental brother because the family needed money.

- Many Continental Congress meetings were heated and full of problems.

- The colonies had no real money.

- Well, he was basically discredited, mocked, stripped of his position as postmaster general, and blamed by the British for the Boston Tea Party.

- Loyalists obviously did not like his opinions.

- He had to try to persuade the French to help a fledgling army and get into war against the most powerful nation in the world.

- He had serious gall stone problems.

- He spent most of his life away from his family - much of it in France.

- His own son became a Loyalist.

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his father was upset with his dream of wanting to go to sea, and his father josiah Franklin, told him that writing poetry was for poor people and he should stick to writing good prose. his half brother, James Franklin, a printer, constantly argued with him, he was very jealous of him and sometimes beat him. Ben had to work as an apprentice to him from 13 yrs. old to 21, but he ran away from massachusets to philadelphia when he was17. he struggled with finding jobs over there. this is just the beginning of ben's life...his story gets more interesting. read Ben Franklin: Inventing America for more details. its not that long, only 164 pgs.

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Benjamin Franklin had to overcome a lot of obstacles such as not having the advantage of people doing research before him. He had to figure out everything about electricity himself.

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Ben Franklin usally got in trouble everyday by his teacher.He never listened to his mom.He got bullied by his older brother.

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that he could not go to colledge

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he was very overweight

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Stuff.

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