William Penn New World Analysis

Introduction William Penn greatly explored the ‘New World’ of Pennsylvania, encountered the people of his new land, and exchanged peace, hope, equal rights, and brotherly love with the newcomers to his “Holy Experiment.” Before he did this though, he did many things back in the European countries. He had many failures but soon was successful in his own ways. Penn got his huge area of the ‘New World’ because King Charles II was in debt to Penn’s recently deceased father. To repay this debt, King Charles II gave Penn a charter to begin a colony in the huge chunk of the ‘New World’ that he had also just given him. After beginning his new colony, many settlers came from many countries in Europe including Scotland, England, France, Sweden and Ireland. His colony soon became known as the “Holy Experiment.” Any race and religion could settle here without being persecuted or enslaved. Penn believed that race, religion, and gender should not change their rights as a human. Everybody in his colony had equal rights and had peace between each other. …show more content…
He worked and never gave up, which made him a champion in his own way. He won his peace that he had wanted for his colony. If the king was never in debt with his father, there would have never been Pennsylvania or a colony of brotherly love. William Penn had said some time with in his life “Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature... No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.” He couldn’t have had his colony of greatness without all the things that led up to it and helped him. He is, in my opinion, a great champion and an amazing historical American