PENNSYLVANIA

MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA

• *Harrisburg(capital)
• Allegheny River
• Pittsburgh(Major city)
• Philadelphia (Major city)
• Allentown(Major city)

PENNSYLVANIA FAST FACTS:

• The state flower is the Mountain Laurel
• The state bird is the Ruffed Grouse
• The state capital is Harrisburg
• The motto is Virtue,Liberty,and Independence
• It's birth of statehood is December 12,1787

ECONOMY:

• Bushy Run Battlefield is the site of the battle in 1763
• Independence Hall was built in1732 as the PA state house.
• Hershey park,sweetest place on earth
• The major natural resources are coal,oil,and natural gas
• Major producers are milk,cheese,eggs,and mushrooms

CULTURE

• The University of Pennsylvania is a member of the Ivy League
• There are German religious groups called the Amish
• Large number of Irish immigrants came to PA
• Italian,Polish,and Russians came for the economy
• The Constitution was was written there

AMISH

• Amish are German religious groups
• The Amish men had long beards and NO mustaches
• The women wore ankle length dresses,shawls,and aprons
• The men run farms and the women sew and cook
• They DON'T use electronics

Amish

• Amish women wear buns,bonnets,capes,and ankle length dresses 
• Children attend a one room school,and it stops in the eighth grade
• They had a policy not to join the army
• like the Mennonites the Amish were victims

AMISH

• They like to ski in the Ponconos
• They speak German AND English
• Instead of cars,they use horse drawn buggies
• They weren't the first group to come,
• The Quakers came first