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Show PENNSYLVANIA -fjfpg TTHE second state Jr-SjvV to adopt the -SS. Nffi Constitution was Pi L?liBsk hI Pennsy'vania- Is lr".cr.vl?-fy" rl area of 45,120 t3$S& square miles is Xyiigfe larger than the S5s c o,m b i n e d New England states, except Maine, with New Jersey thrown in for good meas ure. Its' name means "Penn's Wood land" and was so named by Kinj Charles II, who granted this territor to the Quaker, William Penn, and named it in commemoration of Penn's father, who had been a distinguished admiral and on terms of peculiar friendship and Intimacy with the royal family. This grant was made in lieu of 16,000, which .the king owed Admiral Ad-miral Penn. On this basis it originally original-ly cost about $2 a square mile. Pennsylvania has assumed such an Important place among the states that It Is often called the Keystone state. This term was probably derived originally orig-inally because her name was carved on the keystone of the bridge over Rock creek, between Washington and Georgetown. Later on It was applied on .account of the great Importance of the state in national elections. s Its delegation to congress totals 38, second sec-ond only In size to that from New York, and Pennsylvania accordingly has 38 presidential electors. William Penn first came over to America in 10S2. The following year he laid out the city of Philadelphia, or "Brotherly Love," which was named after a biblical city in Asia Minor. As Pennsylvania was the only colony without a seacoast, Penn obtained from the duke of York the control of Delaware, and until the Revolution these two provinces were under the same proprietary government. Quarrels Quar-rels with Maryland over boundaries caused a formal survey to be made by two surveyors. Mason and Dixon, and it was this which became famous during dur-ing the Civil war as the Mason and Dixon line, the dividing mark between the slave and the free state. |