Activating Strategy William Penn and the Pennsylvania Colony

Essential Question: What role did immigration play in forming what is Pennsylvania today??

Vocabulary 1) Migration- the movement within a country 2) Immigration- the movement from one country to another 3) Quakers- a Christian movement. The first society to ban slaveholding. 4) Dutch- from the Netherlands, a Germanic ethnic group

5) Amish- a group of traditionalist Church fellowships originating in Switzerland. 6) Moravian- one of the oldest Protestant denominations in the world

Biography of William Penn 1) In your groups, read the Biography of William Penn. 2) Read each fact on the fact sheet. 3) Decide if it is a fact about his early life, the Quakers, about PA, the Native Americans, or facts about his later life.

The Biography of William Penn 1) Pennsylvania 2) Early Life 3) Later in Life 4) Quaker 5) Quaker 6) Native American 7) Native American 8) Early Life 9) Later in Life

The Biography of William Penn continued 10) Quakers 11) Later in life 12) Later in life 13) Pennsylvania 14) Pennsylvania 15) Quaker 16) Early life 17) Native American 18) Later in Life

Six Square Organizer for Lesson Follow the directions given by Mr. Fisher to make a six square organizer. In your groups, you will read each section and take notes about the 5 different

1) William Penn and the Quakers 1) Quakers were also known as the “Society of Friends 2) Society of Friends was founded in ) The Society’s rejection of rituals and oaths, its opposition to war, and its simplicity of speech and dress usually attracted hostile attention.

2) Native Americans 1) Penn was granted the land in PA by the King in 1681 but did not settle their until they bought the claims of the Native Americans that lived there. 2) Penn had a very good relationship with the Natives. 3) By 1764 most Native Americans migrated westward, leaving Pennsylvania.

3) English 1) The Quakers were the dominant English group in Pennsylvania. 2) They settled heavily in the southeastern counties. 3) This area became the center of a thriving agricultural and commercial society. 4) Philadelphia became the metropolis of the British colonies.

4) Germans 1) By the time of the Revolution, Germans comprised a third of the population. 2) The PA Germans settled most heavily in in the interior counties of Northhampton, Berks, Lancaster, and Lehigh. 3)Their skill and industry transformed this region into a rich farming country contributing greatly to the wealth of the province.

5) Scotch-Irish 1) They migrated from 1717 until the Revolution because of hardships in Ireland. 2) First settled in Cumberland Valley region and then spread into central and western Pennsylvania. 3) They numbered about one-fourth of the population by 1776

6) African Americans 1) 4,000 slaves brought to Pennsylvania by ) By 1790 there were about 10,000 African Americans and 6,500 had received their freedom. 3) The Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 was the first emancipation statute in the United States.

Pennsylvania on the Eve of the Revolution 1) By 1776 it was the third largest English colony in America 2) Philadelphia had become the largest English-speaking city in the world next to London.