PAC801 S0 WORKSHEET

GROUP #:__1__

DATE: _____1/23/2015____

NAME:

________Marcus Hearne_____________________
Instructions: (Read then delete): Throughout the semester, 10 Friday classes are reserved to
discuss weekly Study Objectives (SOs) for a possible five points each. SOs are designed to
focus your critical thinking on ideas covered in readings and lectures. During the semester,
depending on your assigned group, you will come to Friday classes prepared with 5 printed
responses to one study objective (your choice). Include a relevant and cited excerpt from the
readings as part of your response. Add post-discussion insights to your sheet. At the end of
each of these classes, study objective worksheets will be collected, graded and, a week
later, returned.

Study Objective:
What aspects of William Penns words and deeds do you find most convincing?
Which do you find least convincing? Why?
Your Response:
Based on the assigned readings I believe the sentiments William Penn expressed are
genuine and candid. Undoubtedly, his belief in Quakerism fueled his passion for
fairness both towards his own people and native Americans. As a result of his
selflessness and perhaps gross mismanagement in doing so he accrued a huge
debt. He sold cheaply and gave much of it away to friends in his religious
congregation to encourage immigration. Penn offered a way out of persecution for
many Quakers as evidenced in the reading by Dunn, Penn was particularly
interested in recruiting Quaker investors and colonists, and since the Quakers were
brutally prosecuted in Britian during the 1670s and 1680s, they had special reasons
for wishing to leave. Another testament to the selfness of Penn was in his dealings
with the Indians. In one of his letters Penn apologies for the treatment and
hardships the Indians endured at the hands of his countrymen. Penn does his best
to treat the Indians fairly , in one of his letters he says Now this great God hath
been pleased to make me concerned in your parts of the world, and the king of the
country where I live hath given me a great, province, but I desire to enjoy it with
your live and consent, that we may always live together as neighbors and friends,
else what would the great God say to us, who hath made us not to devour and
destroy one another, but live soberly and kindly together in the world? Ultimately,

Grade:______

PAC801 S0 WORKSHEET

GROUP #:__1__

DATE: _____1/23/2015____

NAME:

________Marcus Hearne_____________________
Penn could have kicked the Indians off the land by force but instead he spent
heavily on trade to clear his title to the land along the Delaware River with the local
Indians plunging him further into debt at the hands of his charity and good will.

Bibliographical Citation:
-Page 322 William Penn and the Selling of Pennsylvania, 1681-1685, Penn
was particularly interested in recruiting Quaker investors and colonists, and since
the Quakers were brutally prosecuted in Britian during the 1670s and 1680s, they
had special reasons for wishing to leave.
-Page 1 One of two letters sent by William Penn to the Delaware Indians,
Now this great God hath been pleased to make me concerned in your parts of the
world, and the king of the country where I live hath given me a great, province, but I
desire to enjoy it with your live and consent, that we may always live together as
neighbors and friends, else what would the great God say to us, who hath made us
not to devour and destroy one another, but live soberly and kindly together in the
world?
-Page 328 William Penn and the Selling of Pennsylvania, 1681-1685, spent
heavily on trade to clear his title to the land along the Delaware River with the local
Indians

Post-discussion insights:

Peer Comments:

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