1. Chesapeake Bay: Maryland
Block 3
Agyeiwaa Boateng
Grace Montecalvo
Crystal James

2. Key Terms Tobacco Bacon’s Rebellion Lord Baltimore Indentured Servants
Act of Toleration
Nathaniel Bacon
Slavery
Leonard Calvert
Roman catholics

3. History of Chesapeake Bay
George Calvert/Lord Baltimore
Founded by Cecil Calvert, the 2nd Lord Baltimore
Founded in 1632
Founded for religious toleration for persecuted Roman Catholics
The Maryland Toleration Act

4. Government Proprietary System
Cecil Calvert- first proprietor of Maryland
Leonard Calvert- first governor
“Instructions to the Colonists by Lord Baltimore”
Representative assembly
William Stone- first Protestant governor
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron of Baltimore

5. Population
At its height in 1750, population expanded to 141,073 people
Main ethnic groups were the Spanish,French and the English, Quakers, Germans, Powhatans, Jews, the Piscataway, Nanticokes, the Shawnee, the Accohannock, and the Susquehannock
Year
1640
1650
1660
1670
1680
1690
1700
1710
1720
1730
1740
1750
# Of Ppl
583
4,504
8,246
13,226
17,904
24,024
24,064
42,741
66,133
91,113
116,093
141,073

6. Culture Women roles Indentured servants Outnumbered
Household chores / Farming
Children roles
Had responsibilities
Strenuous work was everyday life
Mortality rate was high-- diseases

7. Economy Tobacco was the main crop
Used for currency, medicinal purposes, as well as smoking
It was a poor man’s crop
Economic depression- 1600s-early 1700s
Tobacco Plant

8. Religion Catholics lived in maryland for religious freedom
The more practiced religion was Protestantism, with a minor group of Catholics who fled to Maryland to escape religious persecution by the Roman Catholics
Catholics end up not being able to openly practice their religion in what was supposed to be their “safe haven”

9. Major Events/ Important People
Bacon’s Rebellion-1676
Nathaniel Bacon- led rebels in Bacon’s Rebellion
Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)- was given a grant by King Charles Ⅰ
Cecil Calvert- founded the Maryland colony in 1634
Leonard Calvert- first governor of the colony
Bacon’s Rebellion