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Who coined the name United States?
Benjamin Franklin
Oliver Ellsworth
John Quincy Adams
Benedict Arnold
Oliver Ellsworth, one of the Connecticut delegates to the Constitutional Convention, suggested the term United States to identify the government they were forming.
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