A history of the United States for schools . the charter ofthe Calverts, and their government suddenly fell to theground. From 1692 to 1714, Maryland was ruled bygovernors appointed by the crown. The seat of govern-ment was transferred from St. Marys to were levied for the support of the Church of England, of which only asmall part of the populationwere members. Catholicswere forbidden to come toMaryland, and the publiccelebration of the mass wasstrictly prohibited. Suchmeasures caused much dis-content, and created a strongparty hostile to the Britishgovernment. At length, in17
A history of the United States for schools . the charter ofthe Calverts, and their government suddenly fell to theground. From 1692 to 1714, Maryland was ruled bygovernors appointed by the crown. The seat of govern-ment was transferred from St. Marys to were levied for the support of the Church of England, of which only asmall part of the populationwere members. Catholicswere forbidden to come toMaryland, and the publiccelebration of the mass wasstrictly prohibited. Suchmeasures caused much dis-content, and created a strongparty hostile to the Britishgovernment. At length, in1714, the fourth Lord Balti-more turned Protestant, andhis proprietary rights wererevived. Maryland remaineda sort of hereditary monarchy until 1776, when the ruleof the sixth Lord Baltimore was ended by the Declara-tion of Independence. The method of creating a new colony by a grant to alord proprietary was first adopted by the crown in thecase of Maryland. A similar method was followed inall the colonies afterward founded south of New Eng-. SETTLEMKNT OF MARYLAND. 58, 59- THE MIDDLE ZONE. 129 land, though there were variations in detail, and noother rulers came quite so near kingship as the first, the settlers of Maryland supported themselves,just like the settlers of Virginia, by raising tobacco onlarge plantations; and in regard to negro slaves, poorwhites, scarcity of towns, and absence of public freeschools, the two colonies were almost exactly alike. Butin the eighteenth century, the wheat crop came . . ? - ^ Life in the to be very large ; great quantities of wheat and Marylandflour were exported, and the city of Baltimore, *^° °^founded in 1729, soon became one of the most thrivingAtlantic seaports. With the lapse of time, Marylandbecame more and more a commercial state, and her inter-ests, while partly like those of Virginia, were also partlylike those of Pennsylvania and New York. 59. The Settlement of New Netherland by theDutch. Before the Calverts had ma
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