Which statement best explains why William Penn guaranteed religious freedom for settlers in his colony? A. He wanted to attract a wide variety of settlers to create a diverse economy. B. He believed that democracy required citizens to enjoy a strong set of rights. C. He hoped that settlers could co-exist peacefully with the local Native Americans. D. He objected to the persecution of people who were not Anglicans.

Alexander Milne Calder's bronze statue of William Penn atop Philadelphia City Hall surveys the founder's beloved Holy Experiment fashioned out of the ideals of his Quaker faith. In a seventeenth-century world conditioned by violence, religious persecution, and arbitrary authority, Penn established an unusual colony dedicated to the principles of religious toleration, participatory government, and brotherly love.

Such a utopian society had never been attempted in the annals of human history, and its success was reflected by the religious and spiritual diversity that became Pennsylvania's defining characteristic. Penn's belief that "no people can be truly happy if abridged of the freedom of their consciences" attracted to his colony not only Quakers who had been persecuted in England, but Protestants, Catholics, and Jews from a dozen different lands, all of whom had suffered because of restrictions on their religious beliefs.

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apart from being against desegregation, governor of georgia eugene talmadge opposed as well to the work progress administration, an ambitious program of the "new deal" created by president franklin d. roosevelt to overcome the great depression after world war i. talmadge disagreed with welfare spending, job training and organized labor. according to his ideas, he thought the government was spending too much money on this, and he wasn't willing to accept a wage higher than georgia's lower average wage. besides, talmadge strongly opposed to the "new deal" as he thought it had communist ideas.