While in AP United States History, our class was talking about where some of the original thirteen colonies got their names. Some of them were named after kings and queens in England. The colony Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth meaning "country of the virgin". Pennsylvania was also originally named in latin. William Penn named it after himself and after the thick trees he found. He put together Penn- and "sylvania", meaning "woods", thus it became Penn's woods.
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