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Essential Question (2) - //__In which of the colonies from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts would you have preferred to be a settler? Explain FULLY why. (Include thesis focusing specially on the social and economical make up of your choice)- Due Sunday by 8:00 pm__//

Many of the early American colonies in the 1600's tried to become a utopian society in order to draw in the many immigrants that were flooding in. The idea behind this is that every immigrant would want to live in a place that was perfect and had no errors. What it really came down to in these colonies bent on perfection was elimination. The flawed people could not live in a perfect society because that would make the entire society a flawed one. The exception to this obsession with perfection was the colony of Pennsylvania. If people of our generation could travel back in time to the 1600's, everyone of them would choose to live in Pennsylvania because it is the closest model colony to how America is run today.

Pennsylvania was the first colony to utilize the power of advertisment to attract immigrants. Pennsylvania would give you a fifty acre plot of land if you decided to come and live there. This attracted many colonists and raised the population of Pennsylvania to one of the highest in the colonies. With all of these people, towns could be established and the colony would become more like the landscape of Europe. Things could also get done, thanks to the income of immigrants. Roads could be made and industry could grow. The surge of immigrants thanks to advertisement made Pennsylvania a home to many colonists.

Also in Pennsylvania, people had rights. Women were given land and a voice for the first time in the colonies. In Pennsylvania, equality is important. Colonists also had a right to practice any religion they wanted. This was unheard of in any other colony. The legislature in Pennsylvania was temperet but effective. The only capital punishments were for treason and murder, much like the capital punishments of today. The main initiative for Pennsylvania was to create a land of respect. Even the natives were treated right. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, bought the land from the Indians instead of taking it by force. Tolerance for all intrigued every immigrant in the colonies and tolerance is what made Pennsylvania the best place to live.