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PA History Chap 4
Chapter 4 Review
Term | Definition |
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Tamenend | a Lenape chief who signed the Great Treaty of Friendship with William Penn |
Daniel Boone | one of the best known trappers who led thousands of pioneers west |
Johan Printz | a former Swedish soldier who was made leader of New Sweden in 1642 |
Henry Hudson | searched for the Northwest Passage to Asia |
Sybilla Masters | Philadelphia businesswoman who made a machine to clean corn |
William Penn | the founder of Pennsylvania, he believed that the Native Americans should be treated fairly |
Hannah Penn | the only woman to rule one of the 13 colonies |
King Charles II | the king of England who owed William Penn's father money and gave William the land that became Pennsylvania |
Immigrant | a person who comes to live in a new land from another place |
Indentured Servant | a person who agreed to work for someone for a fixed amount of time to pay for their trip |
Trading Post | Dutch explorers traveled to America in the 1600s to set up places to trade with the Native Americans |
Colony | a place ruled by another country |
Port | a place where ships load and unload goods |
Slavery | the practice of making one person the property of another |
Frontier | land on the edge of a settlement |
Treaty | a formal agreement between countries or peoples |
Conestoga Wagon | huge canvas covered wagons built in Pennsylvania |
Walking Purchase | a treaty supposedly signed by William Penn & the Lenape chiefs that gave Penn the land west of the Delaware River |
Quaker | William Penn was a Quaker, lived simple lives and believed all people should be treated fairly |
Religious Freedom | immigrants came here to be able to worship freely |
Philadelphia | "city of brotherly love" |
Pennsylvania | means Penn's Woods |
Subsistence Farming | practice of growing only enough food to survive with nothing extra to sell |
Breadbasket of America | family owned farms in the southeast part of Pennsylvania, raised so much corn and wheat it earned this name |
Harrisburg | an important port in Pennsylvania |