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PENNSYLVANIA The Geography and Environment Pennsylvania: Success of the Colony
THE LAND OF YOUR
THE LAND OF YOUR When the Quakers first arrived in -the land was fruitful and produced
Pennsylvania, they found a few food
HOPES AND
HOPES AND hundred Swedes Finns who had been -kind relationships and trading with
DREAMS!!
living in New Sweden, a small trading the natives
DREAMS colony. There are also different areas to -no problems with food and supplies
the geography of Pennsylvania, -there were families being produced
including: -low poverty rate
o The coastal plain: flat and -there was no military service from
fertile1 the people (problem)
o The Piedmont region: very -they needed to maintain the
productive farmland2 religious worship (problem)
o Appalachian Ridge and the
Great Valley: small valleys that Legacy Of Pennsylvania
provide good farmland.3
o Lake Erie Lowland: soil that is -Quakers of Pennsylvania needed to
good for growing potatoes.4 see the inner light
As you can see, Pennsylvania is -Pennsylvania will continue to
very fertile and has lots of farm prosper because of good economy and
land, so plan on farming! Rivers are trade
also important in Pennsylvania. -William Penn envisioned equal and
Philadelphia is built on the non-violent place
Delaware River, and it is the main -"society of friends", and, "city of
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city in Pennsylvania. brotherly love"
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Origins Life in the Colonies
William Penn, the son of a wealthy Life in the Colonies was basically a
landlord of valuable Irish estates, is the piece of cake.
founder of Pennsylvania because he is o Representative elected
very much attracted to the Quaker government
religion. The following are the aspects o Good Relationships with
of how Pennsylvania was founded: natives (William Penn was
o Penn converted to the belief of referred to as “The Honest
Inner Light and became an White man”)
evangelist for Quakerism. o Natives help out with
o He discovered that there were provisions
Quakers in Europe and England o Women had ability to be a
that wanted their own land for high power official in the
their religion, so he set out to church
find somewhere for them to o Believed in Inner light
stay. (everyone had the right
o Then, Penn’s father died in conscience to lead them to
1681 and he inherited his do the right thing and get
father’s Irish lands and his into heaven)
claim to a large debt from the o Main crop was corn
king. (yummy, yummy!)
o Charles II paid the debt by o Religious tolerance
giving him a territory between (Quakers were pacifists)
New York and Maryland. o Made up of Quakers
o He then gave the territory to the (Society of Friends)
Quakers so they can now o No military service
practice their religion (Society
of Friends).