Maryland
- Founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore, Maryland was used for a safe haven for roman Catholics and it gave somewhere for people to flee due to religious conflict.
- Maryland had a lot of plantations so, they exported and traded many plantation crops including tobacco, cotton, vegetables,grain, fruit and livestock.
- Maryland is bordered by the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River, and Appalachian Plateau. It is the smallest of the Southern Colonies with a very warm climate which helped with the spread of disease. It is also made up of coastal plains.
- Maryland was the first proprietary government, this is where the territory was granted by English crown to one or more proprietors that had full governmental control. After that, Lord Baltimore created a government which he created laws for the consent of the free landowners of the colony. A legislative assembly was created and there were two houses- one for the freedmen and another for the council and he governor.
- Maryland has religious tolerance but was mostly mad up of the Anglican and roman catholic religions.
- For Maryland, residents just had to be hard workers, strong willed and Christian
- The targeted residents were Catholics that were escaping from England due to religious conflict.
- The important and founding documents are “Act for the Encouragement of an Iron Manufacture within this Province”, the Maryland Toleration Act ( Religious toleration), and The Charter of Maryland.
- Some Celebrity Residents- Harriet Tubman, Babe Ruth,Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass, Phillip Glass, Billie Holiday and John Barke.
Primary source- ...no person or persons...professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be anyways troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this Province...
—Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
Is talking about religious freedom and how if you have your faith you shouldn't be harmed
—Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
Is talking about religious freedom and how if you have your faith you shouldn't be harmed