COLONIAL AMERICA PART 1
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- Settling Pennsylvania
- I, William Penn, established the colony of Pennsylvania between 1681-1682, with the King's permission. This was called the "Holy Experiment."
- Quakers and Europeans came to Pennsylvania seeking religious freedom. In 1682, a law was passed in Pennsylvania, that peope of all religions would be treated equally.
- We, the 15,000 Native Americans of the Lenni Lenape tribe occupied this land before the British claimed it.
- Government in the Colonies
- I, the king did not often interfere with the colonies, so the colonies were almost independent in their government system.
- The King selected colonial governers that could overule the general assemblies.
- White landowning men, like myself, could vote to ellect the colonial government
- General Assemblies: elected by colonists to make laws
- We, the Colonists, will smuggle tea to avoid paying taxes, and boycott. We continue to say "No taxation without representation!"
- Townshend Act
- 1767
- We, the British, begin taxing British imports for the colonists. Taxes were placed on everyday things such as glass, tea, lead, paint and paper.
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