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No, the Quakers were accused of Witchcraft in New England long before the Salem Witch Trials. They left New England for Pennsylvania.
The Quakers were persecuted in England so their colony promoted religious tolerance.
Pennsylvania was settled as a colony for Quakers.
New England was awash with religious zealots who wanted freedom of religion for themselves but were unwilling to extend the right to others. The Puritans fled religious persecution in England only to persecute the Quakers in America. Rhode Island was formed as a sanctuary for the Quakers from Puritan persecution. Maryland, not a New England colony, was formed to give a safe haven for Catholicism. Only Pennsylvania, ostensibly a Quaker colony, seemed to have religious tolerance for all religions, and commercial New York was mostly areligious.
The United States for the most part. Some of the first inhabitants of the Northeastern part of the Untied States were Quakers. These protestants moved to the United States to escape religious persecution.
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The puritans called Quakers were the most numerous. They were escaping religious persecution.
Quakers,protestant group,founded the Pennsylvania colony to escape persecution ,or harsh treatment in England
Mainly from England.
Religious percecution in England.
The Quakers a.k.a. The Religious Society of Friends
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No, the Quakers were accused of Witchcraft in New England long before the Salem Witch Trials. They left New England for Pennsylvania.
The Quakers were persecuted in England so their colony promoted religious tolerance.
Quakers were being jailed in England so it made sense to go to Pennsylvania.
QuakerWilliam Penn was a Quaker. The Quakers are known today as the "Religious Society of Friends."
Most people in Pennsylvania were Quakers but that was not forced. You were free to be any religion you wished. Many Quakers came here to escape persecution from the Puritans. Penn even named the capital, Philadelphia, the "City of Brotherly Love."