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FOUNDER OF THE PROVINCE OF PA

W I L L I A M P E N N

Born in London, EnglandSon to Margaret Jasper and Admiral Penn

Expelled from Oxford University

Convinced by Thomas Loe during travels Advocate for the Quaker Faith and

Religious Toleration Leader of Society of Friends

A year later, Penn's "holy experiment" began. He established the colony of Pennsylvania

The King of England ceded a large territory in the Americas to William as payment for a debt owed to his father.

John Moretta states, “If there is anything permanently abiding in the nation’s history, it is the respect for human dignity and human rights. These ideals have come to inform the American creed, and thus the Quaker legacy and that of the man who brought it to North America, William Penn, endures.”

True or False

1) William Penn was a calvanist.

2) William Penn founded the Province of Pa.

3) Thomas Loe convinced William Penn

4) William Penn fought for Religious Toleration

5) William Penn’s, “holy experiment” denied religious freedom to the people of Pennsylvania.

False, William Penn was a Quaker

True, King James II gave it to him because he owed Admiral Penn.

True

True

False, the holy experimented allowed all to worship freely