What was the geography of colonial Pennsylvania?

Answer 1

The geography of Pennsylvania has not really changed since colonial days, although topography likely changed. Pennsylvania was mostly a wilderness of dense forests. PA still has forest areas, especially in rural areas or on PA State Game Lands. Waterways and Indian foot trails were the primary routes; foot trails often went along the edge of mountains, through forests, streams, rivers, etc.

In cities like Philadelphia, colonists laid stone roads. But, in over 3/4ths of the entire State, there were no cut roads at that date, not even dirt roads. Horse back or walking were the means of travel; few families had wagons.

While Philadelphia was settled early, the middle and western parts of the State were uninhabited except by native American Indians. The Allegheny mountains (part of the Appalachias) had been worn down over millions of years into low (rather than peaked) mountains; even so, the mountains in the middle of the State are high to climb and to descend. Many tops look out over rolling hills where a person can see for 25 miles or more, unless fog engulfs the mountains.

Until the late 1700s, the County of Bedford extended all the way from the mountains in the central part of PA, all the way to the Ohio border. But soon, other counties were carved out of Bedford County until Western PA was also settled by people coming south from NY state, west from eastern PA, and up from Virginia and Maryland.

Answer 2

The colonial history of the United States covers the history from the start of European settlement until 1776 when the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence as the United States of America during King George III's rule. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain and the Netherlands launched major colonization programs in eastern North America.[1] Small early attempts-such as the English Lost Colony of Roanoke-often disappeared; everywhere the death rate of the first arrivals was very high. Nevertheless successful colonies were established. European settlers came from a variety of social and religious groups. No aristocrats settled permanently, but a number of adventurers, soldiers, farmers, and tradesmen arrived. Diversity was an American characteristic as the Dutch of New Netherland, the Swedes and Finns of New Sweden, the English Quakers of Pennsylvania, the English Puritans of New England, the English settlers of Jamestown, and the "worthy poor" of Georgia, came to the new continent and built colonies with distinctive social, religious, political and economic styles. Occasionally one colony took control of another (during wars between their European parents). Only in Nova Scotia (now part of Canada) did the conquerors expel the previous colonists. Instead they all lived side by side in peace. There were no major civil wars among the 13 colonies, and the two chief armed rebellions (in Virginia in 1676 and in New York in 1689-91) were short-lived failures. Wars between the French and the British-the French and Indian Wars and Father Rale's War -- were recurrent, and involved French-support for Wabanaki Confederacy attacks on the frontiers. By 1760 France was defeated and the British seized its colonies.

The four distinct regions were: New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake Bay Colonies (Upper South) and the Lower South. Some historians add a fifth region, the frontier, which was never separately organized.[1] By the time European settlers arrived around 1600-1650, the majority of the Native Americans living in the eastern United States had been decimated by new diseases, introduced to them decades before by explorers and sailors.[2]

Answer 3

The geography of Pennsylvania includes rivers, lakes, mountains, seaports, plateaus, and tidal marshes. Major Pennsylvania rivers include the Delaware, Susquehanna, Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio.

Answer 4

it has the great plains in Pennsylvania

the great plains are in the wonderful state of Pennsylvania

Answer 5

Geographic features of Pennsylvania include the Allegheny Mountains, as well as lakes and rivers. There are also plateau and plains regions.

Answer 6

The Pocono mountains are one of the most major geographical features in Pennsylvania !