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In September Peter Minuit and a group of Dutch people puchased 22 square mile of Mannhattan from the Canarise Indians. They used private investors to help pay for the establishement of the colony. In 1626 the Dutch Indies Company sent Peter Minuit to be thye govenor of the colony. Peter offered the Indians $24 and they took it. The Dutch trader entered into an agreement with the Iroquois confederacy.The fur trade rapidly expanded and the Dutch settlement founded on Manhattan Island rapidly grew.
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Peter Minuit left Sweden in 1637 on 2 ships. The ships reached the Delaware Bay in 1638,and the settlers began to build a fort at the site of present-day Wilmington, Delaware. They named it Fort Christina, in honor of Sweden's twelve-year-old queen. It was the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware Valley.
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He founded the Province of Pennslyvania. He was the govenor of this new colony. He made the laws for the colony and would report back to the king.
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Charles II, King of England, disregarding all other claims, made a grant, to his brother James, then Duke of York, to the whole territory from the Connecticut River to the Delaware River, including, therefore, besides a part of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
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The king at this time was a good friend of William's father so when he died he granted land in america to William as a sign of respect. William wannted it to be a free land for all religions and people. He wanted it to be called New Whales, but the king wanted it to be named after Williams father. So the called it Pennslyvania which means "Penns Woods."
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Over 50 ships in 1682 and 1683 were dispatched to the new colony. The city of Philadelphia was founded and became the capital of the new colony. The colony was governed,at first as a democracy. It was governed by a legislature that was elected by all men who either owned land or paid taxes.
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Penn was informed that most of the land he wanted was owned by the Lenape or the Delaware Indiand. William did not want to fight the indians, instead he wanted them to sign a treaty.
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Penns sons tricked the Lenape Indians that their ancestors had signed a contract. The cotract suposevly said all the land that they walked in a day and a half could be theirs. They hired the fastest runners and cheated the Indians out of land.
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The English and French were fighting over territory and trading positions. Then the French built Fort Duquesne where the English were goin to settle. Soon after the war started the FRench and Indians were allies.
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After the French and Indian war the Indians were ruled by the British. They did not like this so an Indian chief named Pontiac held a war council. They were going to take over Fort Detroit. Pontiac led an attack against that installation in May and set up a siege. Later during the summer, a British force attempted to free the fort by launching a surprise attack against Pontiac’s village. British soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
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The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia's Carpenters Hall on September 5, 1774. Twelve of the 13 colonies sent delegates. The Congress, did not want independence. It however wanted to right the wrongs that had been inflicted on the colonies.
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The Pennsylvania Constitution is the foundation of our state government. The articles and amendments of the Pennsylvania Constitution compose the fundamental law of the Commonwealth. It ensures basic rights to our citizens, outlines the structure of our government, and provides the rules by which our representatives are elected and how they conduct the business of the state.
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He built 4 mechanically successful steamboats, the first in the U.S. He ran a boat with side wheels by steam on a pond below. He first demonstrated his 45-foot craft on the Delaware River in 1787 for delegates from the Constitutional Convention. He went on to build a larger steamboat that carried passengers and freight between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Burlington, New Jersey.
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First used in 1795, is the first long-distance paved road built in the United States, according to engineered plans and specifications.[2] It links Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia at 34th Street, stretching for sixty-two miles. It was the first turnpike of importance, and because the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania could not afford to pay for its construction, it was privately built by the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
