Who Was William Penn?: And Other Questions About the Founding of Pennsylvania

William Penn was only twenty-two years old the first time he went to prison. He had attended a meeting of the Quakers, people who practiced a religion forbidden in Britain during the 1600s. Despite the dangers, Penn became a Quaker leader, and he dreamed of a place where people could freely practice religion. Britain's king later gave Penn one of the British colonies in North America. In Pennsylvannia, Penn organized a new kind of government--a place where people had individual rights, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and trial by jury. <br><br>So why was the Quaker religion forbidden? <br>How did William Penn get so much land from the king? <br>What was Penn's ''holy experiment''? <br><br>Discover the facts about the beginnings of Pennsylvania and learn about its importance to what later became the U.S. government.