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Who was William Penn? : and other questions about the founding of Pennsylvania / Marty Rhodes Figley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Figley, Marty Rhodes, 1948- author.
- Series:
- Six questions of American history.
- Six questions of American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Penn, William, 1644-1718--Juvenile literature.
- Penn, William.
- Pioneers--Pennsylvania--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Pioneers.
- Quakers--Pennsylvania--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Quakers.
- Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Juvenile literature.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Lerner, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- William Penn was only twenty-two years old the first time he went to prison. He had attended a meeting of the Quakers, people who practiced a religion forbidden in Britain during the 1600s. Despite the dangers, Penn became a Quaker leader, and he dreamed of a place where people could freely practice religion. Britain's king later gave Penn one of the British colonies in North America. In Pennsylvannia, Penn organized a new kind of government-a place where people had individual rights, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and trial by jury. So why was the Quaker religion forbidden? How did William Penn get so much land from the king? What was Penn's "holy experiment"? Discover the facts about the beginnings of Pennsylvania and learn about its importance to what later became the U.S. government.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- One: Becoming A Man
- Two: Preacher, Writer, Fighter
- Three: An Example To The Nations
- Four: Times Of Trouble And Triumph
- Five: Return To America
- Six: Sorrow And Success
- Primary Source: Penn's Advertisement For Pennsylvania
- Write Your Own Advertisement For A Colony
- Timeline
- Source Notes/Selected Bibliography
- Further Reading And Websites
- Index/Photo Acknowledgments
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-41683-2
- 9786613416834
- 0-7613-8827-3
- OCLC:
- 1011196592
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