Pennsylvania
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A colony is founded
- How and Why? King Charles II had to repay a debt to William Penn
- by whom? King gave William land and named it Pennsylvania
- How was it named? Penn - William Penn's family name
- Sylvania - Latin name for "Forest"
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WHO SETTLED IN PENNSYLVANIA?
- mostly Quakers
- Few Non-Quakers
- penn guaranteed settlers freedom of religion
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IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN PENNSYLVANIA
- WILLIAM PENN - ONE OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN QUAKERS AND THE FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA
- benjamin Franklin - not a founder of pennsylvania, but a founding father from philadelphia; prolific inventor, a polymath, a scientist, a politician, and a diplomat
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Important Events
In 1763, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two young British astronomers commissioned to establish a borderline between Maryland and Pennsylvania, worked for more than four years to settle a century-old boundary dispute between the Calverts of Maryland and the Penns of Pennsylvania by establishing the Mason-Dixon Line
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cool facts: What makes Pennsylvania unique?
- The Pennsylvania Colony's major cities included York, Lancaster, and Philadelphia.
- The Pennsylvania Colony included immigrants from England, German, Scotch-Irish, and African Americans.
- Natural resources in the Pennsylvania Colony included iron ore, coal, furs, forest, and farmland.
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books
The Pennsylvania Colony
Life in the Pennsylvania Colony
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websites
- HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/QUAKERS IN NORTH_AMERICA
- http://kathydoty.com/colonies/13coloniesinformation.htm
- http://www.history.com/topics/thrteen-colonies
- http://www.usahistory.info/colonies/Pennsylvania.html
- https://www.biography.com/people/benjamin-franklin-9301234
- http://www.softschools.com/facts/13_colonies/pennsylvania_colony_facts/2048...
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