The Pennsylvania Colony
Colonial Times
Pennsylvania's Independence
The Call to Liberty
Vocabulary
100
Designed a grid system for the streets of Philadelphia.
Who are William Penn and Thomas Holme?
100
A keelboat.
What is the transportation that was used first?
100
In the 1770's, Britain began to pass new tax laws for the colonies.
What is before the First Continental Congress?
100
Self government and freedom.
What is what Pennsylvania was founded on?
100
A written document that made Penn the owner os the colony.
What is a charter?
200
This gave the Assembly the power to make laws, protected people's religious beliefs.
What was the Charter of Privileges?
200
Protected the soil, grew several kinds of crops, and used natural fertilizers.
What is the farming methods German settlers introduced?
200
Built in Philadelphia.
What is where the first United States Navy ships were built?
200
The battle of Brandywine Creek.
What is September 11, 1777?
200
A shallow freight boat moved by poles or oars.
What is a keelboat?
300
A street, a middle school, an honorary citizen of the United States.
Who was William Penn's wife, Hannah Callowhill Penn?
300
Enslaved Africans for labor.
What is who farmers turned to for labor in the mid-1700s?
300
More than half of the population lived in or near Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.
What is where most Pennsylvanians lived in 1800?
300
A Jewish immigrant from Poland who became a Philadelphia Patriot and raised money to fight in the long war.
Who was Haym Salomon?
300
To take no side in a war.
What is neutral?
400
Believed that all people, free and enslaved, were equal.
What is the Religious Society of Friends?
400
The document that permitted settlers to have as much land as they could walk in a day and a half.
What is the Walking Purchase?
400
Where General Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778.
What happened at Valley Forge?
400
About one of every seven Patriot soldiers in Washington's army were African Americans.
What is by 1779?
400
Elected representatives, from each colony that met in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress.
What are delegates?
500
Repayment for the loans given to King Charles II.
What is how William Penn got the land in North America for a colony?
500
Fort Duquesne located where the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela rivers meet.
What is who are the French?
500
Benjamin Franklin became president of the new assembly.
What was Benjamin Franklin's role in the Assembly for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
500
Her husband was killed in battle and she took his place firing a cannon until she was injured and could no loner fight.
Who was Margaret Corbin?
500
Vote to accept a document.
What is ratify?
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