SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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He wanted Penn to map and explore the colony
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He owed Penn’s father money and Penn was a Quaker
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He wanted Penn to manage the colony for a period of time in exchange for land in England
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Penn’s father wanted his son out of England, too.
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Detailed explanation-1: -With the conditions for Quakers getting worse in England, Penn came up with a plan. He went to the king and proposed that the Quakers should leave England and have their own colony in the Americas. The king liked the idea and gave Penn a charter for a large tract of land in North America.
Detailed explanation-2: -On March 4, 1681, King Charles II of England granted William Penn a New World colony as payment for a debt of 16, 000 pounds the King owed to Penn’s father, a deceased admiral in the British Navy. It was a shrewd move on the part of Charles.
Detailed explanation-3: -Here’s a quick Penn primer: King Charles II gave Pennsylvania to William Penn to settle a £16, 000 debt owed to Penn’s father. That’s more than £3 million today. Penn didn’t like the name “Pennsylvania, ” a mashup of his name and the Latin word for woods, because he thought it made him look like a narcissist.