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Pennsylvania it is a state of the United States of America , the second to be admitted to the Union. It has given its name to the Pennsylvanian period in geology. It is also known as The Keystone State . Although the Swedes and the Dutch were the first European settlers, King Charles II of England granted the territory to English Quaker William Penn in 1681 .

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Pennsylvania was occupied primarily by the Algonquians and the Iroquois. In 1609 , Henry Hudson explored the Delaware Bay area and proclaimed Dutch rights to the area. Later, the Dutch West India Company created the first settlements. In this same period, the English had already established fur trading posts, had conquered the territory around Delaware Bay, and by 1664 controlled all of New Netherland. In the 1670s , English Quakers settled in New Jersey , and in 1681 one of their leaders, William Penn , was granted a royal patent granting him ownership of the lands between New Jersey and Maryland , to which he Penn baptized with the name of Pennsylvania. In 1682 , Penn founded Philadelphia and signed a treaty of friendship with the natives.