0506870 0506870 17-10-2022 History contestada What development in Pennsylvania made it possible for men of modest wealth to gain significant political influence following the Revolution? the settlement of Philadelphia and smaller cities by Quaker dissidents a series of “whiskey rebellions” in the state in the 1770s the establishment of free public education for all males in 1745 the fact that almost the entire prewar elite there had opposed independence the ethnic diversity of the Pennsylvania population