SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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King Charles II gave him the land in to pay off a debt.
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Penn discovered the land.
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Penn wanted the colony to be named after him.
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Penn came from Transylvania and it sounded close.
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Detailed explanation-1: -King Charles II gave Pennsylvania to William Penn to settle a £16, 000 debt owed to Penn’s father. That’s more than £3 million today. Penn didn’t like the name “Pennsylvania, ” a mashup of his name and the Latin word for woods, because he thought it made him look like a narcissist.
Detailed explanation-2: -The colony became a haven for minority religious sects from Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, and Great Britain. Penn obtained the land from King Charles II as payment for a debt owed to his deceased father.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pennsylvania is a combination of Latin words that together mean “Penn’s woods.” The name was created by William Penn to honor his father. Some think Pennsylvania’s nickname comes from its central location among the 13 colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -King Charles II of England had a large loan with Penn’s father, after whose death, King Charles settled by granting Penn a large area west and south of New Jersey on March 4, 1681. Penn called the area Sylvania (Latin for woods), which Charles changed to Pennsylvania in honor of the elder Penn.
Detailed explanation-5: -Charles II granted William Penn the land that eventually became the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in order to settle a debt the English crown owed to Penn’s father. Like early settlers of the New England colonies, Pennsylvania’s first colonists migrated mostly for religious reasons.