Pennsylvania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...succeeded in gaining control of the Middle Atlantic region in 1655. In...Opposition to federal taxation in rural Pennsylvania led to violence...Stevens , emerged in the Free School Act of 1834, which was implemented...making attendance by those of school age compulsory. Much of the...was denominational, and many schools remained church-affiliated...