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Who were the Quakers, and what part did they play in founding Pennsylvania
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Who were the Quakers, and what part did they play in founding Pennsylvania

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The Quakers were a group of Religious peoples from England who came to the colonies to get religious freedoms, seeing as England is Catholic. William Penn founded the state in 1682 as a safe place for quakers to practice their beliefs freely.
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