SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Question
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Pennies from the City
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Penn’s City
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Penn’s Woods
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Penn’s Community
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Detailed explanation-1: -On March 4, 1681, Charles II of England granted a land tract to William Penn for the area that now includes Pennsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for Quakers, and named it for the Latin sylva, silva (“meaning “wood"”), thus “Pennsylvania” (Penn’s woods).
Detailed explanation-2: -He decided to start a colony. Charles II, the king of England, gave Penn some land in North America. Date: In the early 1600s, Penn started his colony and called it Pennsylvania. The name, which meant “Penn’s Woods, ” honored his father.
Detailed explanation-3: -Penn named the territory New Wales. A Welsh member of England? s Privy Council objected, so Penn called it Sylvania (woods). The king changed the name to Pennsylvania, in honor of the admiral.
Detailed explanation-4: -Penn first called the area “New Wales", then “Sylvania” (Latin for “forests” or “woods"), which King Charles II changed to “Pennsylvania” in honor of the elder Penn.
Detailed explanation-5: -Philadelphia gained one of its nicknames, “The Quaker City, ” from its founding and settlement by the Friends, colloquially known as Quakers, a historically Christian religious sect that emerged during the English Civil War (1642-51).