Colony of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 by William Penn
Pennsylvania belongs to the middle colonies.
Farming, industry, trading and learning were all characteristics of colonial Pennsylvania.
To earn a living, planters grew some type of cash crop that could be sold for money or credit in order to buy needed tools, livestock, and household goods which could not be produced on the farm. Before the American Revolution, tobacco was the crop most Virginians grew and sold to English and Scottish merchants.
Hard work in the farming, forestry or mineral mining industries filled most days in the Pennsylvania colony. It held a diverse population that was religiously pious and hard working.
Puritans believed in total simplicity, that everything should be plain. And these basic beliefs also encompassed their Puritan Colonial Clothing.
Timber was in ready supply and simple log cabins were built.
There were three types or systems of government used within Colonial Government - Royal, Charter and Proprietary. However, they all operated using the following basic principles:
- All of the systems of Colonial government in the 13 Colonieselected their own legislature (parliament)
- All of the Colonial Government systems were democratic
- All of the Colonial Government systems had
- A Governor
- A Governor's court
- A Court System
Colonial people would not have had a lot of free time, but when they did they might enjoy music and dancing, playing board or card games, and visiting friends and just talking.
The very establishment of Pennsylvania was founded on the religious ideology of William Penn who believed that every person had an absolute right to worship God as they saw fit.