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Maryland was about 12 million acres. There were no guidelines for religion. Lord Baltimore established Maryland. It was created for Roman Catholics escaping religious persecution in England.
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Maryland passed the Toleration Act, which allowed religious tolerance.
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Slavery was allowed by law in Maryland. African people dominated the labor force.
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It was originally a proprietary province.
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Toward the end of the Revolutionary War, the city served as capital to the newly forming American nation. They met in Annapolis starting on November 26, 1783.
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It was named after Lord Baltimore. Baltimore is a very diverse city.
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Local business elites organized this volunteer program. Its later called the Mechanical Fire Company.
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This secret society was formed to protect rights of the colonist and to fight the British government, which was controlling America at the time.
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He wrote the "Star Spangled Banner."
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Maryland ratified, give consent to, the U.S. Constitution. It was 7th state to do so.
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It was the first yellow fever epidemic. Yellow fever cannot be cured once you have it.
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Maryland forbade the import of slaves for sale, so they couldn't bring slaves from other countries.
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It was a stock company.
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This is the battle at which Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star Spangled Banner."
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It went between Baltimore and Washington.
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This is the school that would become the U.S. Naval Academy is established in Annapolis.
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Edgar Allen Poe died while traveling in Baltimore. He was buried at Westminster Burying Ground in Baltimore.
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Harriet Tubman becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad. It offered shelter to slaves who escaped from their owners. It ran all the way to Canada.
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This was one battle in the civil war. It happened in Fredrick County and Washington County, MD.
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Maryland General Assembly wrote a new constitution which made slavery illegal.
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Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court.
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A small fire was wind-whipped into a giant fire that consumed an very large portion of the city.
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The University of Maryland School of Law admits their first African American student.
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A national aquarium opens up in Baltimore.
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Maryland begins an environmental program to clean up Chesapeake Bay.
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Oriole Park at Camden Yards was officially opened.
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Annapolis celebrates its 300th anniversary.
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Maryland had the lowest poverty in the United States.
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Maryland makes walking its official exercise, making it the first state to actually have an official exercise.
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The Maryland State Senate passed a bill legalizing gay marriage.
