SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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He hoped to be fair especially when forming land deals
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He hoped to incorporate Native people into Quaker society
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He wanted to defeat Native people opening up land for Pennsylvanians.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Quakers were pacifists and believed that the “spark of God” was in everyone. In establishing his “Holy Experiment”, Penn had to decide how to reconcile his pacifist beliefs in a dangerous environment. He decided to treat the “savages” with dignity and respect. His critics said it would never work.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 1765, a decade of warfare had altered the power dynamic in Pennsylvania’s Indian relations. Quakers no longer exerted moral or political authority in the colony’s Indian policy. Instead, frontier settlers assumed all Indians were hostile and tacitly condoned their exile or murder.
Detailed explanation-3: -Penn, who was involved in the project but himself remained in England, drafted a charter of liberties for the settlement. He guaranteed free and fair trial by jury, freedom of religion, freedom from unjust imprisonment and free elections.
Detailed explanation-4: -Penn’s first goal was to develop a legal basis for a free society. He believed that people were born with certain natural rights and privileges of freedom. In his First Frame of Government (1682), he provided for secure private property, free enterprise, free press, trial by jury, and religious toleration.