Colonial Leaders
This person was Maryland's first governor.
Who is Leonard Calvert?
Maryland’s first capital was this city.
What is St. Mary’s City?
This large body of water runs through Maryland and is essential for trade.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
Most people in colonial Maryland lived in these types of homes.
What are wooden houses?
Maryland was founded as a safe place for people of this religion.
What are Catholics?
This woman was the first to request a vote in Maryland’s colonial assembly.
Who is Margaret Brent?
The first English settlers in Maryland arrived on these two ships.
What are the Ark and the Dove?
Maryland is located in this region of the United States.
What is the Mid-Atlantic?
The primary crop grown in Maryland’s early years was this.
What is tobacco?
This law, passed in 1649, granted religious freedom to Christians in Maryland.
What is the Maryland Toleration Act?
He was the founder of the Maryland colony and the second Lord Baltimore.
Who is Cecil Calvert?
Maryland was known for being the first colony to pass a law supporting this.
What is religious toleration?
Maryland’s western border is defined by these mountains.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Many colonists relied on these animals for food and farming.
What are cattle?
These Catholic missionaries were some of the first to arrive in Maryland.
Who are Jesuits?
This man was the first free Black voter in the Maryland Assembly.
Who is Mathias de Sousa?
This woman became the first female landowner in Maryland.
Who is Mistress Margaret Brent?
This river flows into the Chesapeake Bay and was important for early settlers.
What is the Potomac River?
Maryland colonists often traded goods with these Indigenous people.
Who are the Yaocomico?
This Protestant group became a majority in Maryland, leading to religious tensions.
Who are Anglicans?
He sent Jesuit missionaries to Maryland and wrote the charter for the colony.
Who is Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)?
Maryland was the first colony to grow this important crop for trade.
What is tobacco?
This city became Maryland’s capital after St. Mary’s City.
What is Annapolis?
This was the name for workers who agreed to work for years in exchange for passage to Maryland.
What are indentured servants?
The Maryland colony was known as a safe haven for Catholics, but people of this religion also found refuge.
What are Protestants?