Maryland

Maryland is located near Northeast US borders Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Two bodies of water in Maryland are Chesapeake Bay and Baltimore Harbor. Maryland has fertile soil, broad lowlands, and warm climate. Tobacco was a major crop planted in the Southern colonies. It was used to smoke and chewed on and was very addicting to because of the nicotine. The planters of Maryland grew wealthy by them growing tobacco. Africans were enslaved to work in the fields in the Southern colonies. The geography gave rise to a social structure in which the great planters or plantation owners occupied the top spot. the earliest Europeans to visit Maryland were the members of a Spanish expedition led by Pedro Menéndez Marqués in 1574 and fur traders from the Virginia colony. Maryland's earliest inhabitants were hunters who came to the area more than 10,000 years ago. Later, the area was occupied mostly by Algonquian-speaking peoples, including the Conoy and Patuxent on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay and the Choptank, Nanticoke, Assateague, and Pocomoke peoples on the eastern shore. The Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannans lived near the mouth of the Susquehanna River and made regular raids against groups living along Chesapeake Bay. The native inhabitants present when Europeans arrived gradually moved out under pressure from white settlement. The Catholics wanted their own colony. So Lord Balti more got to Maryland and claimed it for the Catholics. Baltimore was founded in 1729 and rapidly became a major commercial center. Tobacco growing, supported by the labor of African slaves, remained an significant part of the state's financial system. Maryland abolished slavery in 1864, while the Civil War was still being fought. However, previous slaves were highly persecuted in the countryside after the war and many moved to Baltimore, where they joined with the city's long-established community of free blacks. They also had fur trades from Virginia
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Catholics became a minority in the colony and many Protestants became dissatisfied with the rule of the Catholic proprietors. The growing number of Puritans took charge of the colony from 1644 to 1646 and again held power from 1654 to 1657, during which time they repealed Maryland's religious toleration legislation.


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 Royal Lord Baltimore along with his sons moved to Maryland and profited from the vast stretches of tobacco grown there. It was his ardent wish to create a separate settlement for Roman Catholics, who were persecuted in Protestant England. Maryland was later known as a 'haven for Catholics'. Maryland was under the sole proprietorship of the Lord Baltimore, and ensured religious freedom for different sects of Christianity, after the Act of Toleration,1649 was passed. Joint stock England was very poor Maryland tobacco crops played a major role in joint stocking to benefit England Proprietarily In (1632) it was issued to his son Cecilius, the second Lord Baltimore. Was given the province that was north of the Potomac River and witch was called Maryland. What type of Government <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">representative government was established in Maryland.

//Maryland had a very small role in the French and Indian War. There were forts built in Maryland and it was also a way for the British to get closer to French troops.//
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Triangle Trade: The Triangle trade was a slave and goods trade with the Americas Europe and Africa first the colonies would make the raw materials than England gave goods to colonies and while in African salves or were sent to the colonies and was sold on market.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Salutary Neglect: This means to not enforce laws, particularly where the enforcement may have counterproductive results.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Mercantilism: taking raw materials from the colonies and making them into good in the mother country and then selling them back to the colonies
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Cash Crops: Main crop that were grown mainly for cash and tobacco was a big cash crop in Maryland
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