Summary

Chapter 7 – “One Head & One Heart, & Live in True Friendship & Amity as One People.” This chapter focuses on the history of the region in which Amity and Prosperity were built. There are descriptions of conflicts between settlers of different religious factions, and also conflicts between those settlers and the area’s indigenous Native American inhabitants. Narration also describes how Quaker settlement leader William Penn (whose name is the basis of “Pennsylvania”) signed a contract with the Native Americans in the area that contained the phrase that gives this chapter its title. Then there are descriptions of conflict between different factions of settlers before and during the Revolutionary War, some of which were resolved by Benjamin Franklin; others were triggered by poor choices made by Alexander Hamilton; and still others were resolved by George Washington, who at one point led troops into the region...