USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This new sect called themselves the Society of Friends, or Quakers, whose faith and practices were so radical that persecution fell upon them. Ultimately, this persecution and their desire for spiritual freedom led them to flee England and establish a religious haven in Pennsylvania.

Detailed explanation-2: -Quakers, as well as several other Christian populations including Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Lutherans, served in the Assembly alongside one another-a distinctive characteristic of Pennsylvania’s government compared to other British colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Historical Society of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania was established a Quaker colony and as such, many of the early leaders of government belonged to the Religious Society of Friends.

Detailed explanation-5: -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. Penn insisted on developing good relations with the Native Americans.