1. Penn and the Quakers
American History 8

2. Review

3. Pilgrims

4. Pilgrim Religion Separatists Persecuted Values rejected idols
believed in predestination
Values
hard work
thrift
simple pleasures

5. Pilgrim Voyage Mayflower; old leaky ship second ship abandoned
had others on ship who weren’t Pilgrims
headed for Virginia; ended in Massachusetts

6. Pilgrim Documents
Mayflower Compact

7. Puritans

8. Puritan Religion Persecuted by James I Part of Anglican Church
Not poor
Very strict
Church and State the same
Create City Upon A Hill
Values
hardwork
thrift
simple pleasures
plain clothes

9. Puritan Voyage Learned from previous colonies Planned settlements
17 new ships
1000 colonists
supplies and tradesmen
Planned settlements

10. Puritan Documents
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

11. Quakers

12. Quaker Religion
Society of Friends
values
hard work
thrift
honesty

13. Persecuted

14. Quaker Beliefs
Oppose taxes

15. Quaker Beliefs
Oppose war

16. Quaker Beliefs
Everyone is equal

17. Quaker Beliefs
No ministers

18. Quaker Beliefs
Prayer to find “inner light”

19. Quaker Voyage Wanted a place to practice religion Avoid Massachusetts
Avoid Virginia

20. William Penn

21. William Penn
Born in London
Son of an Admiral Sir Richard Penn

22. William Penn Attended Oxford University
Expelled for protesting the rule that all students had to belong to the Church of England

23. William Penn Father sent him to Italy and France
Returned a fashionable gentleman, with no apparent strong religious beliefs

24. William Penn At 22, he went to Ireland to manage estates
met Thomas Loe; converted to Quaker
At a time Quakers were being persecuted

25. William Penn
arrested and jailed three times for speaking and writing about Quakerism

26. William Penn
On his father’s death, he realized the king (Charles II) owed him a lot of money
Asked for land in America instead of money
Named colony “New Wales Sylvania”
the king changed it to “Pennsylvania” to honor his father

27. William Penn
The Charter of Pennsylvania was issued on March 4, 1681

28. William Penn
Holy Experiment
all welcome; if work hard

29. William Penn As proprietor, he gave personal and property rights
Granted colony self-government

30. William Penn
Penn made a treaty with the Indians

31. William Penn Believed in equality
Believed people should look out for their fellow man
Opposed war

32. Quaker Voyage
100 come on Welcome
8,000 come in next five years

33. Quaker Settlement Philadelphia trade center, immigration center
banking and insurance industry
education; science

34. Quaker Settlement
Relations with the Indians

35. Walking Purchase

36. Pennsylvania Immigration

37. Germans

38. Religion Different groups Moravians Mennonites Amish Anabaptists
Brethren
Schwenkfelders
Lutherans

39. Germans
Escape Civil War

40. Misnamed

41. Voyage
Farmers came
Whole towns came

42. Settlement
Lancaster
New Germany
Germantown
New Ephrata
Berlin

43. Settlements
Soil Conservation
Crop Rotation