How did quakers maintain their economic and political primacy when europeans from other cultures and traditions flooded into pennsylvania during the eighteenth century?

The Quakers cultivated alliances with Germans who also embraced their ideals of pacifism and voluntary militia service. They also used their large population, established wealth, and political influence to control the colonial economy, the Pennsylvania representative assembly, and negotiated with local Natives for land

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