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William Penn
Chapter 6
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History
3rd Grade
08/24/2012

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A large city in England
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london
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A religious group of people who call themselves Friends
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Quakers
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Became the capital of the United States in 1790
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Philadelphia
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William Penn was put into jail many times because he was a ___.
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Quaker
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Penn's wooded land
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Pennsylvania
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Something that needs to be paid back
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debt
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The "city of brotherly love"
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Philadelphia
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The Quakers were or were not afraid to help the sick.
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were not
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The colony which William Penn began
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Pennsylvania
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To continually give someone ill-treatment
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persecute
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What group of people made sure the Quakers were protected in the early days of Pennsylvania?
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the Indians
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What was the bubonic plague?
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a terrible sickness
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Why couldn't William Penn fulfill his father's wish and become an admiral in the English navy after he became a Quaker?
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he did not believe in fighting or killing
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Why did William Penn's father make him leave home?
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because he became a Quaker
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The man who began the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania
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William Penn Jr.
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Why did the king of England like William Penn's suggestion for land in America?
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because he would get rid of a debt and the Quakers
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Why were the Quakers persecuted?
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because of their religious beliefs
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