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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, applied to Charles I for a royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland. They sailed there.

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George Calvert was the founder of the colony, Maryland.

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they played games such as chess and blind-man bluff

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It is located in the Southern Colonies

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only those who could afford education were educated so only the wealthy could be taught.

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Maryland was founded to worship freely as Catholics and live in peace and harmony with their neighbors.

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most people in Maryland were poor and lived on small farms.

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Catholics

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Maryland had a subsistence farming and shipbuilding industry.

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Maryland was warm with long growing seasons.It had good soil and fertile river valleys

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In Maryland they had teachers, lumberjacks, fishermen, and ship builders.

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Tobacco brought great wealth, prosperity, and prestige to the Maryland colony.

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Calvert was an English politician. He achieved domestic political success as a member of parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I.

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They planted Cash crop to sell and had plantation Farming

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Maryland's main produce was wheat, corn, fruits, and vegetables.