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PA History Chap 4
Chapter 4 Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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