By Naeem & Joseph by v2178

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By Naeem & Joseph

Published on Feb 13, 2017

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William Penn was born in England in 1644
William Penn joined a religious society of friends
William Penn created a colony to give people religious freedom
William Penn signed a charter in 1681 it gave Penn control of the natural resources in what is now Pennsylvania
Penn started a colony in Pennsylvania
He chose his colony's name sylvania
Penn was to give the king any gold and silver under beaver skins

olonist could not take any land unless the native Americans agreed
Pennsylvanians where hungry for land did not wait for the native Americans to sell there land
Native Americans not only lost there land hunting and fishing area but also lost there freedom of life.
Lenape ended more then fifty years of peace between the Pennsylvanians and the Native Americans.
The six nations,a group of Iroquois,agreed to allow Native Americans in the area of the southern colony's.

By the 1690s the Quakers and leaders talked about the punishing church members who were active in the slave trade
In 1758 Philadelphia Quakers banned slave holders from church meetings
In 1775 the Quakers created the Pennsylvania Abolotion
Quakers antislavery efforts continued for many years
Quakers took allot of land

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By the 1740s German religious groups such as the Mennonites and Amish started farmers in the Lehigh valley
In the German language the word deutsch means German
German speaking neighbors had difficulty pronouncing the word,dutch
Germans settlers living near Conestoga river made wagons called Conestoga wagons
The German colonist became know as the Pennsylvanian dutch

The battle started with the French and Indian war
The French and there Native American allies who controlled western Pennsylvania,fought against the British
After the French refused to leave Duquesne, Washington returned with solders
In 1754 his troops built fort Necessity near the French fort
In 1758, the French destroyed fort Duquesne.