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Today we'll learn about how the Quakers became movers and shakers. You know, when they moved to North America...and it got cold. 

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Transcript

00:04

[Coop and Dino singing]

00:13

Recognize this guy? Of course you do.

00:15

He's on that package of gross mush your dad keeps trying to feed you for breakfast. [Dad and son having breakfast]

00:19

Seriously, would it have killed him to swap in Lucky the Leprechaun every once in a while?

00:23

Anyway, Quaker Oats gets its name from a group of people known as the Quakers. [Quakers singing and dancing]

00:27

The Quakers came to the English colonies in the late 1600s after the English government

00:31

started demanding that they worship the Church of England. [King Henry and priest stood outside a church]

00:33

And if your mom has ever demanded that you clean your room, and you'd rather do anything

00:37

else, then you kind of know how The Quakers felt.

00:39

So The Quakers arrived in the New World and established their own communities in what

00:43

are now New Jersey and Pennsylvania. [New Jersey and Pennsylvania on a map]

00:45

In fact, Pennsylvania is actually named after William Penn, who was a Quaker leader.

00:49

Kinda looks like the Quaker Oats guy….except… a little more constipated….[William Penn image]

00:53

Anyway, William Penn signed peace treaties with nearby Native tribes, created a system of government

00:57

for his colony, and made sure that everyone there was free to worship however they pleased.

01:01

In other words, Penn was a pretty cool dude, especially compared to the stunts a lot of [Colony soldiers on a ship]

01:05

the other colonists were pulling at the time.

01:08

That’s why he's honored in a statue atop

01:10

the clock tower of Philadelphia City Hall. [William Penn statue on a clock tower]

01:12

We hope Penn didn’t have a fear of heights. Meanwhile, the Dutch were busy buying the

01:15

part of New York City named Manhattan for 24 dollars. [Dutch man handing Native American 25 dollars]

01:18

Okay, that isn't entirely true. It is true that a Dutch official by the name of Peter

01:22

Minuit gave the Native Americans products worth about that much in exchange

01:25

for the land, but the idea of “owning land” wasn't something that Native Americans really

01:29

understood back then. [Man wearing a hat and gown]

01:30

You can’t really buy something when the people you’re buying it from have no concept

01:35

of a “purchase.”

01:36

They thought that Minuit was just was giving them gifts so that they would share Manhattan.

01:40

It all seemed very pleasant and nice. Until Minuit built a giant fort on the land

01:44

to keep out the Native Americans. [Minuit and native american beside a fort]

01:46

Well, more specifically, he wanted to keep out the not-so-friendly Native Americans.

01:49

The fort actually helped protect cooperative European and Native American traders alike.

01:53

So Minuit was pretty cool.

01:55

But not as cool as William Penn. Once the Dutch had Manhattan, they began bringing [Ship approaches Manhattan]

01:59

African slaves over to what they had since named New Amsterdam.

02:03

That’s before the English took it from them and renamed it what we know it as today, New York.

02:07

So the question remains, what did our two colonies, Pennsylvania and New York, have in common?

02:11

Well, they were both successful because they had good relations with local Native Americans, [Civillians and native americans discussing in a street]

02:15

they were well run, and they were in good locations for trading, starting businesses,

02:18

and growing crops.

02:19

We hope they traded plenty of oatmeal. Hopefully for some Lucky Charms. [Man trades oatmeal for lucky charms]

02:23

Seriously, we're still bitter… not even one Cocoa Puff…

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