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Chapter 4: Pennsylvania the Colony

Use page 42-59 in your book to fill in the blanks on this Study Guide, QUIZ is on ______

Lesson 1: Early Settlers of Pennsylvania (page 42-45)

A. Dutch from ______; also known as the Netherlands

1. Explorer ______

sailed up the Delaware River and found the ______

River in 1616.

2. Settled along these two rivers

3. Built ______and traded with ______

*______- a person who looks for new things and new places

B. Swedish came next

1. Explorer ______sent to buy land from the

Indians along the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers

2. built a fort called Fort ______= 1st capital

*______- people who move to a new land to live

*______- a place where settlers live

3. New ______- First lasting European settlement

4. Governor ______moved the capital to New

Gothenburg on ______

*______- most important leader of the settlement

*______- a place where the leader of the settlement, state or country work

The Swedes:

o  first to build ______

o  first to bring ______for their farms

o  ______the land

o  Indians taught them how to grow ______, ______, and ______

o  planted ______(which is a plant used to make linen cloth) and ______(an important crop worth A LOT of money $$ in Europe)

C. Trouble between the Swedes and the Dutch

1. ______felt New Sweden really belonged to them since they

had explored the land first.

2. Fort ______, a Dutch fort, on the Delaware River was

captured by the Swedes in ______.

3. Dutch became angry and their governor ______

______sent an army to attack

4. In 1655, Dutch won New Sweden and let the Swedes stay on their

farms but they had to obey the ______

D. King ______sent a large army and ______attacked in 1664 and took control of Dutch and Swedish settlements!

Lesson 2: William Penn and His Colony (page 46-51)

A. William Penn

1. born in ______in 1644

2. his father was a famous ______in the King’s army

3. he learned about a new religion called “The Society of Friends” or

______

England / Quakers
o  the Church of ______was the only ______people were supposed to follow
o  that was the ______
o  people who followed other religions were treated ______or put in ______/ o  believed all people should live as ______
o  all people were ______in the eyes of God
o  did not matter if you were ______or ______
o  against ______and would not fight
o  did not worship in ______or have ______

4. Penn became a Quaker and had to leave ______

because only students who belonged to the Church of England could

attend. He went to ______many times.

5. In 1670, Admiral Penn died and left all his ______and

______to his son. Earlier the Admiral had loaned money to

the ______and now the King owed it to William Penn. The King

could not ______the money so Penn asked for land in

______. Penn wanted a place where Quakers and other

could live and worship without ______. Penn wanted to call

the land ______which means “woods” but the King

wanted it named after Admiral Penn. In the end it was called

Pennsylvania or “______”.

B. Penn arrived in his colony in 1682 with over 100 Quakers!

*______- land that is settles by people who leave their own country but remain citizens of that country

1. Pennsylvania’s first set of laws called The ______Law:

§  gave freedom of ______to everyone in the colony

§  made the Dutch and Swedes ______citizens in the colony

§  showed the respect the Quakers had for people and their ______

*______- set of laws by which a place is governed

2. Penn made ______with the Indians and paid them for

the land. They signed land and peace ______with each other.

3. Then Penn began to sell his land in ______pieces and

______prices to many people so the colony grew quickly.

4. Three counties in the colony: ______,

______, and ______.

5. He made plans for the city of Philadelphia which was laid out as the

______of the colony.

6. His country home on the Delaware River was called

______.

C. Other people come to Penn’s colony

1. Germans settled on the ______edge of Philadelphia, and named it ______. Two other German groups, the ______and ______settled in what is now ______County. The ______also came.

2. ______-______came from Scotland but had also lived in

Ireland for a while.

3. Many other people came including ______, ______, and ______.

D. Penn’s family takes over

1. Penn had to go back to England in ______. He never returned to Pennsylvania and died on July 30, ______.

2. His wife, ______, took over the colony. She was the only ______to govern PA.

3. After her death Penn’s ______took over.

Lesson 3: Life in the Colony (pg 51-54)

A. Farming

1. was hard work because PA had thick ______

2. farmers had to cut down the ______or ______them

3. dig up the ______

4. finally they could ______the soil and plant ______

Ø  corn

Ø  ______= PA was the leading producer in America for over 100 years

Ø  ______= used to make linen cloth

Ø  ______= used fibers for strong rope

*______-______- linen sometimes mixed with wool to make cloth

B. Philadelphia

1. built on ______River

2. important ______

3. trade made it the ______city in the colonies

4. fine ______and beautiful ______buildings

5. center for the ______; painters, music, plays, newspapers, magazines

*______- a place where ships come to unload and load their goods

C. How the town grew

1. Farmers needed a place to sell their ______and these places became small ______.

2. Important businesses: [see pictures on page 53]

a. ______= a large building where the farmer’s wheat and other grains were ground into flour

ü  big round ______turns and does the grinding

ü  stone connected to a ______outside the building

ü  ______from a stream or river runs over the wheel and turns it

b. ______= a mill where lumber is cut

ü  ______blade was connected to a water wheel

ü  blade cut logs into boards, or ______

D. Ironmaking

1. PA was rich in wood, ______, and ______ore

E. Moving West

1. more land was needed

2. larger sections of land were bought from the ______

3. people began to cross the ______Mountains

______and ______/ traders followed and built ______
______/ then ______

4. ______Wagon = new kind invented in Lancaster County, first used by the PA Germans. The wagon could carry ______to ______pounds of materials.

[picture on page 54] http://www.factfrenzy.com/facts-about-the-conestoga-covered-wagon/

Lesson 4: The French and Indian War (pg 55-59)

A. Problems with the French

1. Many ______came to North America to become

______traders

2. By 1750, the French were moving from ______into the

lands west of the ______Mountains

B. The British warn the French

1. The ______believed that the lands west of the

Alleghenies were theirs.

2. Pennsylvania and other ______colonies claimed the

lands ______of the mountains.

3. In 1753, the governor of ______sent George

______to Fort LeBoeuf to tell the French to

leave.

4. The French refused and built their own Fort

______.

C. War breaks out

1. George Washington built his own Fort ______.

2. There were many more French soldiers so Washington was finally

forced to ______. This battle was really the

beginning of the ______and Indian ______.

a. one side was Great Britain and its 13 American colonies

b. on the other side were ______and most of the

______groups

D. Braddock’s defeat

1. In 1755, General ______set

out to capture Fort Duquesne. George Washington and number of

other ______soldiers were with him!

2. Braddock did not know the French and Indians fought in a different

way.

a. ______

b. ______

c. ______

E. The capture of Fort Duquesne

1. In ______, William ______was put in charge of the

war plans.

2. The night before the British soldiers arrive, the French had set

______to the fort and left.

3. British built a new ______and it was called ______

______.

*______- small towers

F. Great Britain wins the war

1. At last the ______surrendered

2. In 1763, the French and Great Britain signed a ______

______.

a. the French agreed to give up ______and all the

lands ______of the Allegheny Mountains as far as the

______River.

G. Pontiac’s war

1. The British and Indians went on fighting.

a. ______, a chief of the Ottawa Indians, led the

attacks.

b. British forts keep losing

c. Only three held out; Fort ______,

______, and ______

2. Colonel Bouquet went to stop Pontiac and were outnumbered and

______. He ordered ______of his men to pull

away.

3. The Indians thought all the British were leaving and ran out to

______them.

4. Bouquet and his men ______on the Indians. The Indians

______.

5. In 1764 the war of the Indians came to an end.