THE COLONY OF MARYLAND

HISTORY

HISTORICAL MAP

FOUNDER OF MARYLAND

WHY AND WHAT THE COLONY WAS FOUNDED FOR

• Lord Baltimore was motivated by
• Profit from tobacco
• To create a place for Roman Catholics who were being persecuted by Protestant England
• Maryland was a proprietorship= proprietor had executive authority
• Religious Freedom

GEOGRAPHY

CHARACTERISTICS OF MARYLAND'S GEOGRAPHY

• The Blue Ridge Mountains
• Pennsylvania Hills
• Indented shores of Chesapeake Bay
• Potomac River, Falls of Potomac
• Dimension stone and coal were mined and dimension stone made up most of the buildings in colonial time

LOCATION OF MARYLAND

• Absolute= 39 degrees N 76.7000 degrees W
• On the Atlantic Ocean
• NorthEastern part of the U.S.

REGION

• NorthEastern Region

MOVEMENT

• People moved up and down the coast line in ships
• Horse and Carrage

HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION

• People chopped down trees to make houses and kindling
• People mined for coal and dimension stones
• Harbors cities and houses were built

ECONOMY

MAJOR INDUSTRIES

• Tobacco growing on huge plantations
• Shipbuilding and iron works
• Corn wheat rice

MAJOR IMPORTS

• Furniture, Clothing,food
• Tools,silver,leather goods
• Sugar,molasses
• Weapons, and slaves

MAJOR EXPORTS

• Corn,tobacco,grains,fruit,vegetables
• Fish,iron,lumber,bricks, beaver
• Ships, clay

TRADE WITH NATIVE AMERICANS

• They were expert trappers that sold fur for house hold items
• The fur was then sold to Europeans which became very profitable for Maryland's economy
• Native Americans taught colonists how to hunt and fish
• They helped the colonist establish a strong economy with these skills
• Colonists were also taught how to grow tobacco

GOVERNMENT

PROPRIETY GOVERNMENT

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• Lord Baltimore the founder of Maryland (George Calvert) ruled
• Until he passed in 1632 and handed the grant of territory to his son
• His brother Leonard Calvert was then appointed governor in 1633

REQUIREMENTS TO VOTE

• White Male property owners

INFLUENTIAL RELIGION IN MARYLAND

• Was intended for Roman Catholics
• escaping persecution from Protestant England

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

• Maryland was originally founded as a refuge from religious persecution
• Religious freedom was accepted
• Main Religions Roman Catholic, and Protestant

NATIVE AMERICANS INTERACTIONS WITH THE COLONY

• The native Americans accepted the colonists and taught them to hunt fish and grow crops
• They traded and bartered and taught them to trap
• They used these furs to sell to the Europeans
• The tobacco growing and furs developed this colonies wealth

ROLE IN REVOLUTION

• Baltimore served as a temporary capital of the colonies when
• the second continental congress met there in December of 1766
• Maryland's state house is where the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the war and where George Washington stepped down from chief commander
• Not any major battles were fought in Maryland

FUN FACTS OF MARYLAND

• Tobacco was considered currency at one time
• The colonies nickname was "The Act of Tolleration"

URL

• Info-please.com, bookbuilder.cast
• Maryland.gov,Kathydoty.com

THE COLONY OF MARYLAND