Who Was William Penn?: And Other Questions about the Founding of Pennsylvania (Six Questions of American History)

William Penn was only twenty-two years old the first time he went to prison.

He had attended a meeting of the Quakers, people who practiced a religion forbidden in Britain during the 1600s.

Despite the dangers, Penn became a Quaker leader, and he dreamed of a place where people could freely practice religion.

Britain's king later gave Penn one of the British colonies in North America.

In Pennsylvania, Penn organized a new kind of government―a place where people had individual rights, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and trial by jury.