I think you missing more to the question
The Quakers were a group of Religious peoples from England who came to the colonies to get religious freedoms, seeing as England is Catholic. William Penn founded the state in 1682 as a safe place for quakers to practice their beliefs freely.
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Get your news from as many different sources as you can and look for contradictions. Trust no single source. Typically, the stories that appear once and vanish are most likely to be false.
And unfortunately, most news sources don't give you the back story. You have to follow the news for years or even decades and look things up as you go before you can put together the full picture. Watch all TV news channels, read as many articles online as you can find. Nearly everything is interconnected. Except for sports. Sports is probably the most isolated.