There were several social classes of people in the early days of Maryland ranging from the gentlemen investors to the freeholders to the indentured servants ...

From the beginning, the Maryland population was religiously, socially and racially diverse. Unlike the Virginians, the Maryland colonists brought Africans with ...

The colony of Maryland was founded so that the English Catholics could have a place to live where they could escape the intoleration of the English monarchy.

The colony founded to be a refuge for Catholics held greater appeal for Protestant dissenters, such as Quakers and Puritans who disagreed with the Church of ...

3 дня назад · In 1715 Maryland once again became a proprietary colony of the Calverts, who had converted to Protestantism. Maryland nonetheless remained a ...

The Maryland State Colonization Society was the Maryland branch of the American Colonization Society, an organization founded in 1816 with the purpose of ... Foundation · Republic of Maryland founded...

Maryland soon became one of the few predominantly Catholic regions among the English colonies in North America. Maryland was also one of the key destinations ...

The first inhabitants were a mixture of country gentlemen (mostly Catholic) and workers and artisans (mostly Protestant). This mixture would surely doom the ...

26 июн. 2019 г. · The Maryland colony was founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore as a haven for Roman Catholics escaping anti-Catholic persecution.

Provincial Maryland served as an early pioneer of religious toleration in the English colonies. However, religious strife among Anglicans, Puritans, Catholics, ...