Quakers

No, there is no dress code for Quakers. However, some Quakers, particularly conservative Friends, find a spiritual calling to "plain dressing". One of the Quaker testimonies is Simplicity. Each Quaker, lead by the inner light, responds to this testimony in different ways. Some Quakers feel it is their leading to dress plain, that is a dress similar to Amish or Mennonites. Others feel that plain dressing is just a call to dress modestly but can wear "modern" clothes. Others feel they can still respond to the testimony of simplicity and wear modern clothes, jewelry and make up. The important thing for each Quaker is to listen to the inner light and discern how each individual person is being called to best live their life with God.

There is no such thing. Most Quakers don't even have clergy.

Tha Cadbury family were part of the quacker religion.

• yes there were Quakers in New York.

Quakers (The Religious Society of Friends) has historically practiced Christianity, as they were founded on them. But they remain a very tolerant group and are open to any faith.

Like all other fundamentalist Christians, they believe in an afterlife.

Cremation is pretty rare among all rural communities; I don't know if it is forbidden.

Funeral parlors are a relatively young industry. While there were morticians embalming the dead, the bodies were laid out in the home. Most funeral homes were established right after WWII. There is a funeral home in Allen County Indiana that drive their horse-drawn hearse in parades, but it's far too fancy to appeal to the Amish; most Amish there use their own homes, because it's more personal and more convenient to friends and family.

Because of the diaspora of the Amish, the deceased may have children living a plane flight away. Because of the difficulty of communications and transportation, it wouldn't be tolerable to skip embalming.

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Some Quakers helped maintain the "Underground Railroad" which was a series of safe places that escaped slaves could travel to the north to (often Canada).

However, this didn't necessarily help the actual issue of slavery itself (which to many was not an issue at the time).

72 times in the King James Version of the Bible.

Most Quakers do not consider that observing such sacraments aids the living of a spiritual life.

No the settlement of Oregon did not begin until the 1800's.

The Christian cross or crucifix, except that Quakers don't use symbols or images.

A way of living that involves behaving to all people as if they are of equal importance to all other people and that there is benefit in gathering with others in an attitude of worship to discern what is required of us in the world.

William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker colony on March 4, 1681.

Not all Quakers believe in Jesus now.
Originally, all Quakers believed in Jesus Christ. George Fox, a famous early Quaker, and viewed by many as the founder of 'Religious Society of Friends' as Quakers came to be known, was clearly a believer in Jesus. He urged people to turn from sin, put their trust in Jesus, and allow the Holy Spirit to cleanse and instruct their hearts. It is often said that Quakers got their name because they 'quaked' with the power of the Holy Spirit as they prayed in Jesus name. They rejected priests and pastors because they believed everyone could know Jesus and God directly, nor did they think ritual useful for the same reason. In time it became the accepted practice to sit and wait for Jesus to do things among them by the Holy Spirit; people would preach or pray as the Spirit moved them. As time went on, the 'Society of Friends' meetings became gradually quieter, often consisting mainly of waiting and reflection. When things did happen, however, it would usually be Christian in nature. This would have been the emphasis of most Quaker meeting houses, and their associated group of friends, into the 20th Century.
However, early on, Quakers were persecuted by other people who quoted the Bible as a justification for their actions. Apparently in reaction to this, the Quakers came to a general decision not to write down a Creed (a list of Beliefs that everyone can agree on) and to put the Bible beneath their experience of Jesus and God's Love and the Holy Spirit. This lack of a written Creed means that you can be a Quaker and not believe in Jesus, but at the outset all Quakers would have preached from the Bible under the 'inspiration of the Holy Spirit'.
Over the years, there have become distinct groupings of Quakers , who all seem to have inherited a similar outlook on life, but clearly do not have the same belief systems. Some have become more like other Christian groups. As they found people among them no longer believing in Jesus, they started to write down what they believed in order to preserve and define their belief in Jesus. Others have taken the attitude that they only need an 'inner light' to guide them, and this has led some to teach Transcendental Meditation and encourage the study of other Hindu and non-Christian beliefs. Still others have a humanistic world view, in which meditation is a way to find peace to think through difficult issues and find meaning in life, with no reference to a Christian God.
The experience of many people now is that if they are a Christian, they will not find any common experience of Jesus with many Quakers, nor would their Quaker friends know or understand the Bible.
There are however, Quakers who are still believers in Jesus, and whether they do or not will depend greatly on where they are in the world and what tradition they belong to.

they came because they wanted freedom. and they settled in massachusetts.

The Quakers were mistreated in England because of their religious beliefs.

by boycotting slave-grown sugar

by writing petitions to Parliament

There were and still are lots of Quakers opposed to slavery including that which goes on in the 21st Century, but during colonial times John Woolman was a pivotal leader. "Woolman came to abhor slavery and spent much of his life personally confronting slave owners and speaking in Quaker meetings (Holt, 2005)."

In the 1700s the Quakers first formed. They are a Protestant people and are also known as the Religious Society of Friends. They were known as the Valiant Sixty in the 1700s and tried to convert others to their beliefs.

Because of the fact that Philadelphia a part of the colonial Pennsylvania allowed religious freedom that attracted many Quakers and other people who were persecuted because of their religious beliefs.

They believed that one could worship god without going to church so they didn't go

Yes Betsy Ross is a Quaker, she was schooled at a public Quaker school and her parents were Quakers. But she was expelled from the Quaker congregation after her eloping with her first husband John Ross. She later joined the "Fighting Quakers" which supported the war effort unlike the traditional Quakers

Quaker's view of women has always been ahead of the times. In the 17th Century Quaker women were involved in traveling about in England and in giving ministry in Quaker meetings. Initially George Fox (founder of Quakerism) put separate Women's meetings in place and it was these meetings which presided over the marriages of Quakers, these separate women's meetings were done away with by the 19th Century. Note the following quote (source at end.) "On balance, and in the long run, I believe that the separate women's meeting was good for women; indeed, it may be said to have been a cradle not only of modern feminism but of the movements of abolitionism, women's suffrage, and peace activism, all of which were, and are, enlivened by the presence (even predominance) of Quaker female leaders." Mack, Phyllis, Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England.http://www.answers.com/topic/berkeley-california: University of California Press, 1991.

they were early christens so they sort of wear the same as them. so the women would cover their whole body and wear a bonnet. check www.quakerjane.com for images. i guess the man would wear the same as priests i am not sure. hope this information was helpful