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why it was so popular for immigrants
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is because of the great tolerance of the Quakers
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who founded the colony.
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Though Pennsylvania, like Massachusetts,
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was founded by basically a group of religious dissenters,
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the Quaker faith was quite different from Puritanism.
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And it was much more focused on regulating society
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according to your internal moral spirit
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rather than through institutional,
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sort of church-oriented structures.
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So there were fewer external rules
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and regulations controlling Pennsylvania society