SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Peter Stuyvesant
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William Penn
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John Smith
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King Charles II
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1701, Penn signed the Fourth Frame, or Charter of Privileges, which granted citizens of Pennsylvania a number of basic freedoms-in particular, freedom of worship and the right of individuals to speak their mind. The Charter of Privileges formed the basis of Pennsylvania’s state constitution in 1776.
Detailed explanation-2: -In it, Penn famously summed up his philosophy on governance as follows: “Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.” He crafted a government that he felt would strive for those ideals.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Quakers of Penn’s colony, like their counterparts across the Delaware River in New Jersey, established an extremely liberal government for the seventeenth century. Religious freedom was granted and there was no tax-supported church.
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.