USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("the Friends") are generally united by a belief in each human’s ability to experience the light within or see “that of God in every one".

Detailed explanation-2: -Quakers rejected elaborate religious ceremonies, didn’t have official clergy and believed in spiritual equality for men and women. Quaker missionaries first arrived in America in the mid-1650s. Quakers, who practice pacifism, played a key role in both the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.

Detailed explanation-3: -Society of Friends, also called Friends Church, byname Quakers, Christian group that arose in mid-17th-century England, dedicated to living in accordance with the “Inner Light, ” or direct inward apprehension of God, without creeds, clergy, or other ecclesiastical forms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Quakers believed that each individual had an inner light. They held services in which members of the congregation spoke and participated in periods of silence. They advocated pacifism and refused to remove their hats in the presence of government officials.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Fox’s journal, Bennet “called us Quakers because we bid them tremble at the word of God.” Indeed, early Friends did tremble and shake at their meetings, and spent many pamphlets defending “quaking” as a biblical phenomenon. Some Friends (including Fox) disliked the name, but it began to stick nonetheless.