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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 / Quakerso 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.