Leading events of Maryland history; with topical analyses, references, and questions for original thought and research . misfortunes of hisfather had come upon him asa result of his fidelity to hisreligion, decided in his owncase to sacrifice his religionfor his province, and publiclyrenounced the faith of hisfather and became a memberCHARLES CALVERT FIFTH LORD BALTIMORE of the Church of England. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF A PAINTING IN THE GALLERY ,^, . „». U„ „ U„„„ « KW+af OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY This must havc bccu a bittcr blow to his father, who died soon afterward. The plea that th
Leading events of Maryland history; with topical analyses, references, and questions for original thought and research . misfortunes of hisfather had come upon him asa result of his fidelity to hisreligion, decided in his owncase to sacrifice his religionfor his province, and publiclyrenounced the faith of hisfather and became a memberCHARLES CALVERT FIFTH LORD BALTIMORE of the Church of England. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF A PAINTING IN THE GALLERY ,^, . „». U„ „ U„„„ « KW+af OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY This must havc bccu a bittcr blow to his father, who died soon afterward. The plea that thegovernment of Maryland was not safe in Catholic hands couldnow no longer be urged, and in 1715, with the death of Charles,the government of Maryland passed again into the hands of theCalverts. Benedict Leonard lived barely six weeks after thedeath of his father,but his young son, Charles, was acknowledgedas fourth proprietary of Maryland and the period of royal govern-ment came to an end. 45. State of Society; Manners, Customs, and Charac=ter of the People.— The life of a people is determined to a. 60 LEADING EVENTS OF MARYLAND HISTORY very great degree by the geography of the country they inhabit,and this fact is remarkably well illustrated in the case of Mary-land. The soil was very fertile and invited cultivation, the for-ests and streams abounded in game and fish, while the magnifi-cent expanse of the Chesapeake bay, with its numberless inletsand navigable rivers, made communication easy. Thus townswere not needed and none were built. St. Marys and Annapoliswere simply places of meeting for the courts and for the transac-tion of public business, and they refused to grow. St. Marysnever contained more than fifty or sixty houses, and even thesewere much scattered. Mary-land was thus wholly agri-cultural. Land was grantedin large tracts, seldom lessthan fifty acres and oftenembracing several thousands,and the owners, calledplanters, were engaged . TOBACCO HOGS
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