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☆☆☆☆☆He welcomed Catholics and Quakers among others. Because the Colony was established as a refuge for European Quakers. Pennsylvania was a favorable place to settle: climate, land, port and government. Philadelphia was at the time the best developed city in the continent.
Because the Colony was established as a refuge for European Quakers.
You see, William Penn was a friend of king Charles the second and the king did not want to kill William Penn for being a quaker. So he basicly gave him a grant to find land so he would escape persicution. Then have a place for religious freedom.
There was plenty of good land available for farming.
The class system of England and Europe
Originally it was people from Virginia that settled in Carolina. Others came from Great Britain, Germany and Switzerland. There were also slaves brought in from Africa.
None; the middle colonies had a very diverse religious population.
It offered rich land for farming
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To allow Quakers to escape persecution in England.
A need for more land.
use plantation Barns.
