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3rd grade Am Heritag
William Penn
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does persecute mean? | to continually give someone ill-treatment |
| What does debt mean? | Something that needs to be paid back |
| Who were the Quakers? | a religious group of people who call themselves Friends |
| Who was William Penn, Jr.? | the man who began the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania |
| If the king of England was a Catholic, what did he expect everyone to become? | Catholic |
| What does it mean to be persecuted? | to be punished or treated badly |
| What did the Quakers call each other? | Friends |
| Why did the Quaker men refuse to bow or take off their hats to anyone? | They believed no one should show more respect to one person than to another? |
| How did the Quakers dress? | in plain, dull-colored clothes |
| What sickness spread through London? | bubonic plague |
| How did the Quakers believe they should show the love of God? | by helping other people |
| What were the Quakers doing when they were arrested by the soldiers? | helping the sick |
| What did William Penn admire about the Quakers? | their bravery |
| What did William Penn's father want him to be? | an admiral in the navy |
| Why did William Penn's father throw him out of the house? | William became a Quaker. |
| What did William Penn ask for instead of the money the king owed him? | land in America |
| Give two reasons why the king liked this idea. | 1. He would get rid of the debt. 2. He would get rid of the Quakers |
| What does "sylvania" mean? | wooded land |
| What did William Penn hope that some day everyone would have in America? | religious freedom |
| Instead of taking land from the Indians, what did William Penn do? | He bought the land from the Indians. |