THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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only his religion was right
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the King should control religion
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in true religious freedom
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women had no role in religon
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Detailed explanation-1: -Penn and other Quakers believed that everyone had to seek God in his or her own way. Penn also thought that religious tolerance – or “liberty of conscience” – would create stronger governments and wealthier societies. Other English thinkers in the 1600s shared these ideas.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1666 Admiral Penn sent William to Ireland to manage the family estates. There he crossed paths again with Thomas Loe and, after hearing him preach, decided to join the Quakers (the Society of Friends), a sect of religious radicals who were reviled by respectable society and subject to official persecution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Quaker belief in living in accordance to God’s will and the radical idea of equality of men was essential to the success of Penn’s “holy experiment.” Quakers were the most important ingredient in Pennsylvania society during its first twenty years of existence.
Detailed explanation-4: -Quakers advocated for First Amendment religious freedom, other civil liberties. Quakers immigrated to the American colonies in part because of the persecution they faced in England.