People
Created the colony of Pennsylvania
William Penn
The agreement that the king paid his debt to Penn by giving him land
Charter of 1681
The main reason for founding PA
religious freedom
City of Brotherly Love
Philadelphia
Members of the Religious Society of Friends were also called
Quakers
Penn's cousin who came to the new colony before Penn
William Markham
Treaty made with the Native Americans to transfer land
Treaty of Shackamaxon
Penn wanted a colony where all people could live in
peace/harmony
Penn's Woods
Pennsylvania
The organization of Philadelphia's streets
Blocks/squares
Owed money to Penn's Father
King Charles II
a formal agreement
treaty
True or False
Penn kicked the Native Americans off their land
False
Settlement of German families
Germantown
Penn believed every person was
equal
Led a group of 13 German families
Francis Daniel Pastorius
an official paper that gives a person or business certain rights
charter
How did Penn tell other countries about PA
He made booklets
named after Buckinghamshire
Name 2 countries other than England that people left to come to PA
Germany, Ireland, Wales, Scotland
Lenape
This was passed as Pennsylvania's first legislature
True or False:
Penn sold the land at high prices
False
Chester County
By the 1750's over one-half of PA's population spoke
German