William Penn's Influence On American Culture

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The United States had this inspiration of living free and having diversity from the colonial period of its history. To them, freedom was not a single idea but a group of separate rights and privileges which depended on one’s nationality and social status. The concept wasn't fully living a free diversity lifestyle. Instead, Americans liberty were a mixture of religious and ethnic affiliations that favored some citizens and unprecedented slavery and dispossession for others.
William Penn, who was a wealthy Quaker, received a large amount of land, which became known as Pennsylvania. According to Evan, William did this to help the land get more popular, Penn actively employed immigrants. Majority of the emigrants left their …show more content…
In that time period, their home was like a church, a spiritual center of public life, a life of which children receive their morals and spirituals education, from their mother and father (NORMAL AND MODEL SCHOOLS, OF THE HOME AND COLONIAL INFANT AND JUVENILE SCHOOL SOCIETY). The women were not allowed to listen or even get involved with the business affairs of their house hold. Women were to know almost nothing about how their husbands conducted the day to day …show more content…
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