USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
William Penn formed a long-lasting peace with which Native American?
A
Pochantas
B
Squanto
C
Metacomet
D
Tamanend
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -TAMANEND was partner with William Penn in a boldly conceived agreement dated 1683 that Europeans and Indians would live together in peace as long as the creeks and rivers run and while the sun, moon, and stars endure. Penn’s unprecedented Indian treaties captured the imagination of Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -The print was published in London in 1775, with the title William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians when he founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America, 1681.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tamanend (historically also known as Taminent, Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, “the Affable, ") ( c. 1625– c. 1701) was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle Clan of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the Peace Treaty with William Penn.

Detailed explanation-4: -Prior to the first waves of colonization, the major Pennsylvania Indian tribes were the Lenape, Susquehannock, Shawnee, and Iroquois. Those original people of what would become the city of Philadelphia were the Lenape.

Detailed explanation-5: -The indigenous people who inhabited the land that became Philadelphia were the Lenape (also Lenni Lenape; their English moniker was “Delaware”); they were displaced by Quakers and other religious minorities that settled the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the late 17th and 18th centuries.

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