Answer to Question #253908 in History for Bryn

Question

How does the Pennsylvania gazette show the colonists support of printers?

Answer 1

The gazzete Facilitated political and religious debates but it also played a crucial role in the burgeoning colonial and Atlantic economies by transmitting commercially valuable information and providing advertising outlets for domestic merchants and shopkeepers. The printing press helped to spread literacy, civic discourse, and even political dissent in colonial America. Without paper, however, the invention of the moveable type printing press would have been insignificant.