![]() ![]() Favorite destination were Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.By 1776, over 100,000 had come to America.Others came to escape heavy taxes and poor harvests.Some were Mennonites and Amish who suffered religious periodic persecution.Most came from small states along the Rhine River.Their favorite destination was Pennsylvania.England did not treat them well and, following a series of harvest failures in the 1720s, thousands left for North America.Created religious and ethnic hatred that still plagues Ireland today.Militarily beat down native Irish and took their land.Descendants of Scottish Presbyterians who had settled in northern Ireland in the 1500s.But the majority were non-English inhabitants of the British Isles.Some settlers were from other colonies or England.Complete religious freedom was guaranteed to all.Only had to pay small quitrent to Penn every year.Any man who brought his family over received 500 acres of land.Rich farmland offered to settlers on generous terms.4000 Quakers moved to the colony in 1681.Planned to use this colony as a haven for persecuted Quakers from England William Penn Charles II.Modern day states of Pennsylvania and Delaware.In exchange for canceling the king’s huge debt to him, Penn was given a huge chunk of territory in the New World.Wrangled an extraordinary gift from the king in 1680.Son a famous admiral, wealthy landowner, and friend of King Charles II.Fines for refusing to attend Church of England.Refused to take oaths and were pacifists.Did not recognize superior social status.Most democratic Protestant denomination of the time.Became haven for persecuted religious group in England.This fact restricted immigration to New York despite its other attractions Two members of New York gentry. ![]() Had to rent land from gentry and become tenant farmers.Made it difficult for ordinary people to buy land and become independent small farmers.Created powerful aristocratic class in colony. ![]()
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