How did the end of the English Civil War affect the founding of Pennsylvania? The debts that King Charles II owed to William Penn influenced Penn by forcing him to take out loans to develop his colony.
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England after the English Civil War, became the first governor of Pennsylvania.
Catholic leaders from England, Scotland, and Ireland established a new colony in Pennsylvania after receiving a charter from Pope Clement IX.
William Penn’s Quakers were persecuted in England when the Church of England reestablished its power, which convinced Penn to establish religious tolerance in his colony.