US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies: Difference between revisions
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<nowiki>***</nowiki> after the English Restoration, Rhode Island welcomed Quakers, Jews and others seeking religious liberty | <nowiki>***</nowiki> after the English Restoration, Rhode Island welcomed Quakers, Jews and others seeking religious liberty | ||
Rhode Island was started by Puritan Roger Williams who was exiled from Massachusetts | '''Rhode Island''' was started by Puritan Roger Williams who was exiled from Massachusetts | ||
* Williams named Rhode Island "Providence Plantation" and established religious tolerance | |||
'''Quakers''' = "Religious Society of Friends" | |||
* Puritans who were considered extremists for their belief that the "Light of Christ" resided in every person | |||
Quakers = "Religious Society of Friends" | * in 1681, the Quaker William Penn traded a debt owed to his father by King Charles II for the province of Pennsylvania | ||
* by 1685, 8,000 Quakers had moved to Pennsylvania | |||
* Penn encouraged protestant German immigrants, including Lutherans, Mennonites, Amish, and other sects | |||
* many of these groups settled on farm land, thus "Pennsylvania Dutch country" | |||
in 1681, the Quaker William Penn traded a debt owed to his father by King Charles II for the province of Pennsylvania | |||
by 1685, 8,000 Quakers had moved to Pennsylvania | |||
Penn encouraged protestant German immigrants, including Lutherans, Mennonites, Amish, and other sects | |||
many of these groups settled on farm land, thus "Pennsylvania Dutch country" | |||
* '''Fundamental Orders of Connecticut''', 1639 | * '''Fundamental Orders of Connecticut''', 1639 | ||