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The founder of Maryland was Captain John Smith. He claimed this land for king England in 1608. King Charles, I of England gave his friend, Lord George Calvert who acted like a Lord Proprietor
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they all were catholic but Maryland Granted religious freedom to all its people that has settled from other places that had different religion

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colonists raised flax to do clothes, grains,for example corn and wheat etc.. they were involved with lumber business and the Colonist financially supported themselves by raising and selling crops for money.

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People that lived in in the colony in Maryland they are Catholics and people in England they came to Baptist,puritans,Wesleyans,and Quakers. There are Native Americans also lived in the area in Maryland law and forced then to slave.

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MaryLand was mostly independent and colonists were allowed to govern or rule themselves. the original character from charles I Granted Lord Calvert, The Lord Proprietor, more power than most leaders. free men elected representatives to rule or govern the colony and they are loyal to calvert not to the king, calvert had the power to print money, create an army and declare war.

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Lord proprietor was managing the colony  from England as a job. lord calvert changed to catholicism and needed a haven from religious persecution and he wondered that maryland should be a land of sanctuary for people wanting religious or political freedom. bassel

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In Maryland it gets so cold in the winter and rains and snows. In the summer it get humid and hot. Maryland was in both sides of chesapeake Bay and its the largest bay in the United States

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Come to Maryland for rights