History of the United States . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Born Boston, Mass , Jan. 17,1706; moved to Philadelphiaand became a printer and jour dence; represented theConfed- tioU ActS, the first of which WCrC paSSCd aS erated States at Pans, securing French treaty; President of early as 1651 and rc-cnactcd and changedat the time of the Restoration and in later Pennsylv ,nia after the Revolution; member of ConstitutionalConvention; scientist and phil-osopher; died in Philadelphia,1790. enactments. Reference has already beenmade to these,^ the purpose of which was torestrict colonial exports and imports i
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History of the United States . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Born Boston, Mass , Jan. 17, 1706; moved to Philadelphiaand became a printer and jour dence; represented theConfed- tioU ActS, the first of which WCrC paSSCd aS erated States at Pans, securing French treaty; President of early as 1651 and rc-cnactcd and changedat the time of the Restoration and in later Pennsylv , nia after the Revolution; member of ConstitutionalConvention; scientist and phil-osopher; died in Philadelphia, 1790. enactments. Reference has already beenmade to these, ^ the purpose of which was torestrict colonial exports and imports in favor of British commerce.Thus imposts were fixed and prices set in London over whichThe Naviga- the colonists had no control. The rigid enforcement of tionActs ^ ^ evaded or ig- thesc laws at any period of colonial development might nored, 1651- ., , ii t ^i 1764 either have prevented that development or have forced the colonists into open resistance. But the laws were evaded orignored and commerce went on almost undisturbed