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What role did Philadelphia play in the founding of Pennsylvania?

It was primarily a farming town

It served as a model for urban planning and tolerance

It was a military base

It was the first capital of the United States

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It served as a model for urban planning and tolerance.

William Penn laid out Philadelphia with a planned grid and public squares and intended it as a tolerant “holy experiment” for Quakers and other religious minorities. (It was the colony’s capital, but not primarily a farming town or a military base; its later role as the U.S. capital is separate from Pennsylvania’s founding.)