Physical Characteristics
This is the most popular bay in Maryland
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
During the Ice Age, the first people used to cross on this now-long-forgotten bridge
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
Maryland is named after this person
Who is Queen Henrietta Marie (wife of King Henry I)?
The names of the two ships that traveled to Maryland
What is the Ark and the Dove?
Unfortunately, the voyage to America was so long and harsh that people on the boat had to share this unpleasant tool (both men and women)
What is a bucket?
Maryland is near this ocean
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This group of Eastern Woodland Indians was the most feared tribe because they were very strong/muscular and there were MANY of them
Who were the Susquehannock?
This person was granted the charter for the land in America that is known as Maryland
Who is George Calvert (the First Lord Baltimore)?
Settlers only took baths once a year, thinking a layer of dirt was good to protect them from harsh weather, this invention helped them to talk with one another
What are "sweet bags?"
Infusion is the process that settlers used to make their medicine where they would combine herbs (like lemon balm), water, and then do this
What is adding a boiling hot iron to it to heat it up?
These 4 states border Maryland
What are Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and Delaware?
After the ice started thawing, Indigenous people started moving/roaming around places, following herds of animals, this is called this
What is nomadic?
George Calvert never got to see Maryland fully established so this person stepped in to finish the work
Who is Cecil Calvert?
This was the year St.Mary's City was founded
What is 1634?
What is barrels? Bonus: What is hog head?
Name at least one river in Maryland that is NOT the Potomac river
Teacher decides!
Some answers may include: Susquehannock River, Anacostia River, Nanticoke River, Chester River, Monocacy River, Patuxent River, Pocomoke River, Choptank River, etc.
These Eastern Woodland Indians were known as the people of the tidewaters and they were very skilled at using EVERY part of an animal
Who were the Nanticoke?
The biggest reason many settlers left England was to pursue this in Maryland
What is religious freedom?
This was the indigenous group of people that the settlers encountered when they arrived in Maryland first
Who were the Yaocomico Indians?
Ouch! You do not want to be a thief in this colony. If you were, this would be your punishment
What is branded somewhere on your body (store robbers) OR nailed at the ear (hog thief)?
Maryland has 4 main regions: the Appalachian region, the Blue Ridge Mountain region, the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and this one (hint: it's the region our school is located in)
What is the piedmont plateau?
The Piscataway people were known for this (hint: it's why they lived in longhouses)
What is EVERYONE in the tribe would work together to protect crops, even the kids?
This person made history by being the first African American to hold a position in Maryland's General Assembly
Who is Mathias de Sousa?
This is how indentured servants got their name
What is after signing a dual contract they would rip the paper in half, leaving an indent, so that the servant and master have the same contract and could match their copies
This was the main reason why people came to America at all
What is to get wealthy (gain land) and not be poor for the rest of their lives?