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Pennsylvania - Colonial, Revolution, Industry: With the end of the Civil War came a period of great economic, industrial, and population expansion in Pennsylvania. Until well into the 20th century, Pennsylvania was the second most populous state in the country. In 1873 the state passed its fourth constitution; with amendments, that document survived until 1968, when it was so fundamentally ...
At the dawn of the 20th century, Pennsylvania was an industrial powerhouse and international center of technological innovation. Pennsylvanians had little doubt that their state would continue its explosive economic growth producing steel, textiles, locomotives and railroad cars, machine parts, and a broad range of manufactured goods in high demand at home and abroad.
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Sep 18, 2023 · Pennsylvania Colony was founded in 1681 when King Charles II granted a charter to William Penn for the establishment of a new colony between Maryland and New York, in a region that was initially part of New Sweden and then New Netherland. The King named the colony Pennsylvania, in honor of Penn’s father, Admiral William Penn.
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Pennsylvania - Colonial, Revolution, Industry: At the time of European settlement, the Native American population was small and widely scattered. The Delaware, or Lenni Lenape, occupied the Delaware valley; the Susquehannock were in the lower Susquehanna River valley; the Erie and various groups of the Iroquois Confederacy—Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida—were in northern Pennsylvania.
The bituminous and coke industries were responsible for the late nineteenth century industrial growth of western Pennsylvania; the iron ore deposits there would not alone have merited such growth. World War I caused two years (1917-1918) of the largest production of both types of coal the state has ever seen.
In the twentieth century, the Pennsylvania family farm, still the backbone of the state's economy and an important symbol of the American dream, underwent a series of dramatic transformations. In the early 1900s, the introduction of the gasoline powered machinery, especially tractors, revolutionized farming. Farmers gradually gave up their horses.
Nov 9, 2009 · Pennsylvania’s capital, Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775, the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, ...
