Pennsylvania

Examples of Pennsylvania in the following topics:

• Pennsylvania and Delaware

  • In 1681, William Penn founded the Province of Pennsylvania, also known as Pennsylvania Colony, in British America by royal charter.
  • The Mason-Dixon line is said to have legally resolved vague outlines between Maryland and Pennsylvania and awarded Delaware to Pennsylvania.
  • Delaware Colony became a region of the Province of Pennsylvania, although never legally a separate colony.
  • He attempted to merge the governments of Pennsylvania and Delaware.
  • Until the French and Indian War, Pennsylvania had no militia, few taxes, and no public debt.

• Quaker Liberty

  • The Quaker colony of Pennsylvania emphasized freedom of religion through its Charter of Privileges.
  • The early Pennsylvania government was heavily influenced by the values of William Penn and the Quakers .
  • Until the French and Indian Wars, Pennsylvania had no militia, few taxes, and no public debt.
  • Pennsylvania embraced freedom of religion and welcomed religious and political refugees, including German immigrants, to the Pennsylvania Dutch Country frontier.
  • The first hospital in the British American colonies, Pennsylvania Hospital, was founded in 1751, and The Academy and College of Philadelphia (which later became the University of Pennsylvania) was founded in 1749.

• The Holy Experiment

  • The Holy Experiment was the Quakers' attempt to establish a community for themselves in Pennsylvania.
  • Penn named his new colony Pennsylvania, meaning "Penn's Woods. " He then tried to attract settlers to Pennsylvania and make a profit off his newly founded colony.
  • In 1751, Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the British American colonies, and The Academy and College of Pennsylvania, the predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, both opened.
  • William Penn founded and governed his "Holy Experiment", the province of Pennsylvania.
  • Describe the founding of the Pennsylvania colony and its central features

• Settling the Middle Colonies

  • The Middle Colonies later became the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
  • As a proprietary colony, Penn governed Pennsylvania, yet its citizens were still subject to the English crown and laws.
  • The Pennsylvania Assembly took this opportunity to request expanded power for elected officials.
  • In Pennsylvania, sawmills and gristmills were abundant, and the textile industry grew quickly.
  • The Middle Colonies was comprised of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania.

• German Migration

  • German immigrants began settling in New England at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but soon settled mostly in Pennsylvania.
  • The tide of German immigration to Pennsylvania swelled between 1725 and 1775, with immigrants arriving as redemptioners or indentured servants.
  • Collectively, they came to be known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.
  • Describe the political and cultural commitments of the German presence in the Pennsylvania colony

• The Economy of the Middle Colonies

  • During the American Revolution, the Middle Colonies became independent of Britain as the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware.
  • Pennsylvania became a leading exporter of wheat, corn, rye, hemp, and flax, making it the leading food producer in the colonies (and later states) between the years of 1725 and 1840 .
  • In Pennsylvania, sawmills and gristmills were abundant, and the textile industry grew quickly.
  • The colony also became a major producer of pig iron and its products, including the Pennsylvania long rifle and the Conestoga wagon.

• From Gradualism to Abolition

  • The Act prohibited further importation of slaves into the state, required Pennsylvania slaveholders to annually register their slaves (under pain of forfeiture for noncompliance, and manumission for the enslaved), and established that all children born in Pennsylvania were free persons regardless of the condition or race of their parents.
  • Those enslaved in Pennsylvania before the 1780 law went into effect remained enslaved for life.
  • In 1847, the Pennsylvania legislature passed another act freeing its slaves altogether.
  • Pennsylvania's "gradual abolition"—as opposed to Massachusetts's 1783 "instant abolition"—became a model for freeing slaves in other Northern states.
  • With the exception of New Jersey, these states were not as conservative as Pennsylvania about slaveholders' property rights.

• The Whiskey Rebellion

  • Resistance came to a climax in July 1794, when a U.S. marshal arrived in western Pennsylvania to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the tax.
  • President Washington, confronted with what appeared to be an armed insurrection in western Pennsylvania, proceeded cautiously.
  • He commanded insurgents in western Pennsylvania to disperse by September 1.
  • The militia was called up from New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and eastern Pennsylvania and produced a large force of over 12,000 men.
  • George Washington and his troops near Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

• The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

  • In Pennsylvania, the land acquired in this treaty is known as the "Last Purchase".
  • The map shows Pennsylvania and the territory involved in the two purchases of 1768 and 1784.

• The Demographics of the Middle Colonies

  • Indentured servitude was especially common in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York in the 18th century, though few such servants worked in agriculture.
  • They were erroneously labeled the Pennsylvania Dutch and comprised one-third of the population by the time of the American Revolution.
  • Despite Quaker opposition to slavery, by 1730, colonists had brought about 4,000 slaves into Pennsylvania.
  • The Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 was the first attempt to abolish slavery in the colonies and what would become the United States.