1. Chesapeake
Maryland
(1632)
Krishna Sharma
Helen Loda
Melina Guzman

2. Key Terms Cecilius Calvert Proprietary government Tobacco
Indentured servants
Mulatto
Anglicans
Nathaniel Bacon
Act of Religious Tolerance

3. History/Founding
George and Cecilius Calvert (Lord Proprietor of Maryland)
Safe haven for Catholic and Protestant families
Leonard Calvert
“Instructions to the Colonists by Lord Baltimore”

4. Government 1st proprietary colony
Proprietary = grant titles, raise an army, incorporate towns, coin money, etc.
Wanted consent of the people
Two houses : freemen and governor and his council
John Coode and Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore

5. Economy
Tobacco, cotton, corn, vegetables, grain, fruits, and livestock
Indentured servants
1660’s ’s - economical depression

6. Population/Demographic
1640
1660
1680
1700
1720
1740
8,400
17,900
29,600
66,100
162,300
245,500
English: 57%
African descent: 40%
Mulatto: 3%
1750
Talk about women, indentured servants, africans as slaves
mulatto
person of mixed African (black) and Spanish ancestry.

7. Slaves Culture/Social 5% Poor farmers 55% 40% Women : Children:
Scarce
Housework
Model for daughters
Children:
Taught to read
Schooling (boys)
Apprenticeships at 7 years old
Tobacco
Usually large families 5%
Gentry
Large
Landowners
Poor farmers
(backcountry farmer)
55%
Indentured Servants
40%
Slaves

8. Anglicans Puritans Catholics Quakers Religion
By law, Church of England = state church
Anglican
safe-haven for England’s Roman Catholic minority
The Act of Religious Tolerance was passed in 1649
Due to the Protestant majority, the Religious Tolerance Act was repealed in 1654
Protestant Revolution of 1689
Outlawed Catholicism
Catholics had secret masses
Didn’t become religiously tolerant again until the declaration was signed
Anglicans
Puritans
Catholics
Quakers
Anglicans, Puritans, Catholics, and Quakers was common in the early years, and Puritan rebels briefly seized control of the province.
Anglicanism is often called the "via media" or "middle way" between Catholicism and Protestantism.
By popular demand, Maryland became a religious tolerant colony (to attract people/solve conflict).

9. Native American Relations
Bacon’s rebellion
1676
Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley

10. Review people/ summary events
Calvert; religious freedom
Governing- proprietary
Economy-crops; depression
People- English and African descendants
Jobs- Poor farmers and Slaves
Religious tolerance
Bacon and Native Americans