SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Question
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He believed everyone should have religious freedom
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He fought people from the New England Colonies
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He made it so everyone had to follow the laws
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Penn welcomed settlers from all faiths to Pennsylvania. Each of the other American colonies had established an official church, but Penn did not. He sought out religious groups suffering in Europe, and invited them to his colony. He even gave some groups land.
Detailed explanation-2: -Penn used his diplomatic skills and political connections to free Quakers from jail and help them travel to America. In 1681, King Charles II granted him a charter to found a new colony in America. Penn arrived in America in 1682 and established the groundwork for the formation of the Pennsylvania colony.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was the primary reason that William Penn granted religious freedom in his colony? to encourage settlers to come to his colony. Penn sought to allow Pennsylvania, a proprietary colony, to grow, with religious freedom being an artifice.
Detailed explanation-4: -William Penn understood that many of the colony’s settlers would not be members of the Religious Society of Friends and so he attempted to ensure the practice of Quaker ideals by the establishment of a school system based on those values.
Detailed explanation-5: -William Penn (24 October [O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [O.S. 30 July 1718] 1718) was an English writer and religious thinker belonging to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, a North American colony of England.