State Flag
What/who is holding the shield on the seal?
plowman & fisherman
What state is to the north of Maryland?
Pennsylvania
Where was our national anthem written?
Ft. McHenry
When was the war of 1812?
Who won the War of 1812?
1812
Who made a map and a written record of the bay?
John Smith
What is pictured on the original seal from England
armed figure on a horse
What 2 states touch Maryland's southern border?
What was the first permanent English settlement?
St. Mary's City
When did Maryland become a state?
April 28, 1788
Who were the Patriots?
not the football team :)
colonists who wanted to form an independent nation
What is on the 1st and 4th quarters on the flag?
yellow and gold bars
What is the large body of water dividing eastern Maryland and western Maryland?
What was the colony's commercial center?
Baltimore
When did the first European see the Chesapeake Bay?
Bonus: Do you know who that was?
1524
Who was the first Lord Baltimore?
George Calvert
What is on the 2nd and 3rd quarters on the flag?
red & white Greek cross
What geographic feature divides Maryland from Virginia and West Virginia?
Potomac River
What was the colony's political center?
Annapolis
When was the first permanent European Settlement?
1634
Who was Francis Asbury?
a circuit-riding Methodist preacher
sent to America from England by John Wesley
When and where was the Maryland flag first flown?
in 1880 at a parade in Baltimore in honor of the city's 150th anniversary
In what land region of Maryland do we live?
Piedmont
What was the first European settlement?
(hint: not permanent)
Kent Island
When was the first European settlement?
1631
Who wanted a colony ruled by England not owned by a Catholic?
John Coode