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Goodnow, Frank, 185 Government of Maryland, first, 6-9 early changes in, 21 reorganized, 37 changed to royal province, 60 restored to Calverts, 63 changes wrought by royal government, 71 under Convention and Council of Safety, 89-90 formation of state, 92-95 reforms to 1851, 162-163 under Constitution of 1864, 182 under Constitution of 1867, 182-184 Governor of Maryland, appointed by pro- prietary, 8 may approve laws temporarily, 31 presides over Assembly, 32 duties and powers, 49 made head of state government, 94, 95 election of, given to the people, term made 4 years, 162-163
powers and duties under Constitution of 1867, 183 Governors of Maryland, complete list of, 275-277 Grant, General, 172, 178
Great Seal of Maryland, stolen, 36 description of, 38-39 Greene, Nathanael, receives command in the South, 124 campaigns in the South, 124-125 order to Williams at Eutaw Springs, 128 praises Maryland troops, 128 Growth of popular control, 184, 185, 186 Guilford Courthouse, battle at, 125, 127 Maryland troops at, 127
monument on battle-field to Maryland Line, 210 Gunby, John, at the battle of Guilford Court- house, 127 at the battle of Hobkirk's Hill, 127
Habeas Corpus, writ of, explained, 173-174 suspended during Civil War, 174 opinion on, by Chief Justice Taney, 174 resolution of Maryland Assembly on, 174 Hager, Jonathan, 76 Hagerstown, founded, 76 captured during Civil War, 178 manufactures of, 191 as a commercial center, 194
Haman, B. Howard, 189 Hanson, John, 137 (footnote)
Harford, Henry, 86
Hart, John, governor, 72
Havre de Grace, burned by British, 147 Heating of houses in colonial times, 104 Henrietta Maria, Maryland named in honor of, 5 Herbert, James R., in battle of Gettysburg, 178 monument to, 210 Herrman, Augustin, 53 (footnote) Hobkirk's Hill, battle of, 125 Maryland troops at, 127-128 Hoes of colonial times, 100
" Home rule " for cities and counties, 184
Homes, in early Maryland, 22, 65 in later colonial times, 102-105
Hood, stamp distributor, 84 Hopkins, Johns, 199-200 Horse-racing, 107
Hospitality in Maryland, 68, 104 Howard, John Eager, at the battle of Cow- pens, 126
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Howard, John Eager, continued assigned to troops to cover Greene's retreat, 127 at the battle of Guilford Courthouse, 127 equestrian statue of, 127, 211
at the battle of Eutaw Springs, 128 tribute to, by Greene, 128 governor of Maryland, 142 Howard, John Eager (grandson of fore- going), in Mexican War, 164 Howe, General, 115, 120 Hundred, division of county, 22 St. George's, 23 Hyder Ally, the, 129
Indented servants, 66 Indians, of Maryland, 16
Leonard Calvert's dealings with, 16-17
land purchased from, 17
Nanticokes and Susquehannocks commit outrages, 32 threatening, 51 methods of warfare, 80
Industries of Maryland, in the province, 21-24, 63-66, 99-102 in the state, 186-191 See also Agriculture, Aquarian products, Mining, etc. Ingle, Richard, invades Maryland, 35-36 Iron mines of Maryland, 102
James, Duke of York, seizes Maryland terri- tory, 55 makes a grant to William Penn, 55
becomes king of England, 55 helps Penn to seize Maryland territory, 55-56 becomes a tyrant and is driven from the throne, 56
James I, king of England, 3 opinion about the rights of kings, 32
Jamestown, settlement of, 3 Jews, enfranchised, 163
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 201
Johns Hopkins University, 199-201 receives state aid, 201
Johnson, Bradley T., in command of the Maryland Line in the Southern army, 176 in battle at Front Royal, 176
Johnson, Thomas, first state governor of Maryland, 95
nominates Washington for commander-in- chief, 113
Joppa, 72 Judiciary of Maryland, in the province, 49, 5 1 in the state (1776), 95 under Constitution of 1867, 182-184 July 3d, the battle of, 207
Kalb, Baron de, 123-124 Kenly, John R., in command of Maryland troops in Northern army, 175 in battle at Front Royal, 176 Kent Island, Claiborne establishes a trading post on, 28 captured by Leonard Calvert, 30 awarded to Maryland by Board of Com- missioners for the Plantations, 31 Key, Francis Scott, composes "Star-Span- gled Banner," 153 monument erected to, 211, 251
King William's School, 62 merged in St. John's College, 144
Lafayette, Marquis de, 125, 130 Landing of first colonists in Maryland, 14, 17 Laws, how made in colony, 31 revised code passed by Assembly of 1715, 71 of England against American commerce and manufactures, 83
Lawyers of colonial Maryland, 102 Learned societies, 205 Lee, Charles, 118 at the battle of Monmouth, 121 Lee, Robert E., 172 invades Maryland, 177
defeated at South Mountain, 177
in battle of Antietam, 177 defeated at Gettysburg, 178 surrenders, 178 Lee, Thomas Sim, 142
Lewger, John, 21
Lewis, tried and fined, 40
Lexington, battle of, 90
Liberia, 167-168
Libraries, public, 203-205
Lighting of houses in colonial times, 104 Lincoln, Abraham, elected president, 169 Lincoln, General, 123
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Literature in colonial Maryland, 109 London Company, 3 Long Island, battle of, 115-116
Ider- McCall's Ferry, power plant at, 191 McClellan, General, 177 Maine, destruction of the, 206 Manila bay, battle of, 206 4 Manners and customs, in the early days of the colony, 21-24 in the eighteenth century, 63-68 Maryland life in colonial times, 99-111 n'anc in United States after Revolution, 138 Manufacturing industries, 189-191
Maryland, named for Queen Henrietta Maria, 5
character of the country at the time of the first landing, 15 prosperous beginning, 19 becomes a royal province, 60
restored to the Calverts, 63 becomes an independent state, 92 compared with Virginia, 99 in the Revolution, 130, 132 part in establishing the Federal Union, 135-140
cedes land for Federal capital, 144 in War of 1812, 145-153
attitude at opening of Civil War, 170-171 conditions in, during Civil War, 173-175 aids South after Civil War, 179
present government of, 182-185 politics and elections in, 185-186 industries of, 186-191 commerce and transportation in, 192-194 social and industrial laws, 194-196 education in, 196-203 Maryland Academy of Sciences, 205 Maryland Colonization Society, 167 Maryland flag, 45
Maryland Gazette, the, 109 prints controversy between Carroll and Dulany, 86-87 Maryland Historical Magazine, 205 Maryland Historical Society, 205 art gallery of, 206 Maryland Institute, 202
Maryland soldiers, at Long Island, 115-116 in Northern campaigns of the Revolution, 118-119, 121-122
Maryland soldiers, continued at Camden, 124 in the Southern campaigns of the Revolu- tion, 125-128 services in the Revolution, 130, 132 in the Mexican War, 164 in the Civil War, 175-178 in the Spanish-American War, 206
Maryland State College of Agriculture, 201- 202 Maryland State University, 202 Maryland Steel Company, 190
Mason and Dixon's Line, 78
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 205 Merryman, John, 173 Mexican War, 163-164 monument to Maryland soldiers in, 163 (footnote) Maryland soldiers in, 164 Mining industries, in the province, 102 in the state, 187-188
Monmouth, battle of, 121 Maryland troops at, 121-122
Monument, to Columbus, 2, 208 to Leonard Calvert, 37, 209
to Maryland's Four Hundred at Long Island, 117, 210
to John Eager Howard, 127, 211
to George Washington, 155
to Colonel Armistead, 208
to Edgar Allan Poe, 209
to General Herbert, 210 at Guilford Courthouse, 210
to General Smallwood, 210-211
to Francis Scott Key, 211, 251
to Marylanders who aided the cause of freedom during the Revolution, 211
to Union soldiers and sailors, 211 to Confederate soldiers and sailors, 211 to John M. Hood, 211-212 See also Battle Monument
Morgan, General, at the battle of Cowpens, 126 Morse, Samuel F. B., 162
Neale, Councilor, releases Ingle, 35 Nepotism in the province, 57 New Amstel, 53
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Nicholson, Commodore, 129 Nicholson, Francis, becomes governor, 62 founds King William's School, 62 efforts for education, 62, 210 Ninety-Six, siege of, assault by troops of Maryland and Virginia at, 128
Non-importation society, 85, 87 Normal schools, 199
North, the, life and customs of, differ from those of the South, 99 slavery abolished in, 167
controversy with the South over slavery, 168
defeats the armies of the South, 172
North America, struggle for, between Eng- lish and French, 79-82
North Point, battle of, 150-152
Northwest Territory, 136
conflicting claims of states, 136 map of land claims in 1783, 136 interest in, preserves the Union, 136 map of, in 1787, 140
stand taken by Maryland makes a national domain and founds Federal Union, 137 lands from, set aside for education, 137 (footnote)
Occupations in colonial times, 99-102
Ogle, Samuel, 72 Ohio Company, 80 " Old Congress Hall," 119 Old Treasury Building, 62 (footnote) Oregon, the, 208 Oysters, 65, 188-189
Paca, William, 92 advocate of national domain, 137 governor of Maryland, 142 Palatinate, Maryland a, 8 meaning, 8, 9 Durham model for Maryland, 9
Palmer's Island occupied by traders, 28 Parker, Sir Peter, 148
Peabody, George, supports Maryland credit, 161
contributes to the cause of education in the South, 179 endows the Peabody Institute, 203 contributes to the Maryland Historical Society, 205
Peabody Institute, dedicated, 203 library of, 203 art gallery of, 206
Peggy Stewart, burning of the, 87, 89
Penn, William, granted Pennsylvania, 54- 55 gains territory from Maryland, 55
Pennsylvania railroad, 192-193
People of Maryland, character of, 67-68, 11I
Peter Cooper's locomotive, 159 Philadelphia, " finest city in Maryland," 77 captured by the British, 120 evacuated by the British, 121
Plater, George, 137
Plows of colonial times, 100
Pocomoke, battle of the, 29
Poe, Edgar Allan, 209
Political parties, 185
Politics and elections in Maryland, 185-186 Poll tax in Maryland, 61
Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, 198-199 Popular rights and privileges, charter grants to Marylanders the rights of Englishmen, 8
exemption of the colony from royal taxa- tion, 8
struggle for the privilege of proposing legislation, 19-21
Assembly contends for, 58, 72
demand for the rights and privileges of Englishmen, 72, 84
contention for, during French and Indian War, 82
asserted at time of Revolution, 85, 87, 89, 92 Maryland becomes a state, 92, 94 state government formed, 94-95 democratic changes, 162-163
stated in Maryland Declaration of Rights, 182-183
Population of Maryland at the time of the Revolution, 99
Pory, John, conducts trading expeditions, 28 Postoffice, Baltimore, 214
Potomac Company, formed, 143
merged in the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company, 143
Pratt, Enoch, 203 Privateers, American, in the Revolution, 129 in the War of 1812, 146
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Professional schools, 213 Property qualifications, for voters and office- holders, 95 abolished, 163 Proprietary, rights and powers of, 8, 49 becomes a mere landlord, 60 restored to Maryland government, 63 Protestant Association, 59 Protestant Revolution (1689), 59-60 Protestants. See Religion Providence, settlement of, 41 Provincial Court, 51 Public improvements, plans of Potomac Company, 142-143 Chesapeake and Ohio canal, 157 Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 157-160
aided by the state, 161 first telegraph line, 162 in Baltimore, 212, 218 Public Schools. See Education Public-Service Commission, 196 Pulaski, Count, 130
Puritans, settle in Maryland, 40 granted freedom of worship, 42 rebel against Lord Baltimore, 42-45 surrender province to proprietary, 45 control Assembly of 1660, 51
Quakers, 51, 58
Ramsey, Nathaniel, 121-122 Rawdon, Lord, at Camden, 124 Redemptioners. See Indented servants Reed, Philip, in command at Caulk's Field, 148 monument to, 148 Referendum adopted, 184 Religion, meaning of religious intolerance, 4 of first Maryland colonists, 13 Protestants and Catholics in Maryland, 37 Toleration Act, 39-40 Puritan intolerance, 42-45 difficulty with Quakers, 51 feeling against Catholics, 57 Episcopal church established by law, 61 severe laws against Catholics, 61 Religious toleration in Maryland, 13 Toleration Act, 39-40
Religious toleration in Maryland, continued Protestants protected, 40
Puritans granted freedom of worship, 42 Repudiation Day, 85 (footnote) Resources of western Maryland, 142 Revolutionary War, causes of, 83-85 Maryland in the, 113-132 task of the Americans in, 114 naval operations in, 128-129 close of, 129-130 Ridgely, Randolph, 164 Ringgold, Samuel, 164
Roads, state, 194 Rolling roads, 64-65
Roosevelt, President, 207 Ross, General, arrives in the Chesapeake, 148 captures Washington, 149 killed, 150, 152. Rousby, Christopher, killed, 58 Rumsey, James, 140 (footnote)
St. Clement's Island, 14 St. John's College, founded, 143 receives state aid, 202 St. Mary's, first capital of Maryland, 17 location and settlement, 17 ceases to be capital, 62 character of town, 64 Sampson, Rear Admiral, 207 Schley, Thomas, 74 Schley, Winfield Scott, second in command in Cuban waters, 207
in battle of July 3d, 207 Court of Inquiry, 207 received popular sympathy, 207-208
Schools. See Education
Scotch-Irish immigrants, 76 Scott, Irving M., 208 Secession, threats of, from New England states, 145 meaning of, 169 threats of, after the Revolution, 169 differences of opinion about, 169 Southern states secede, 170 Secretary of the province, 49
Secretary of state, 183 Senate. See Senators Senators, chosen by electoral college, 95 elected by the people, 162
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Senators, continued under Constitution of 1867, 183 Servants. See Slaves and Indented servants Severn, battle of the, 44-45 Shad, 189
Sharpe, Horatio, governor of Maryland, 81 efforts in the French and Indian War, 81 contends with Assembly, 82, 85 succeeded by Robert Eden, 86
Shoemaker, Samuel M., 194 (footnote), 202 Sixth Massachusetts regiment mobbed in Baltimore, 172
Slaves, negroes as, 66, 104-105
retained in South, freed in North, 166- 167
proportion of, to free negroes in Maryland, 167
efforts in South for gradual emancipation, 167 plan of colonizing, 167
controversy over, between North and South, 168
Smallwood, William, absent from battle of Long Island, 115
suppresses Tory insurrection, 122
governor of Maryland, 142 monument to, 210-211
Smith, Samuel, defense of Fort Mifflin, 121 in command at Baltimore (1814), 150 suppresses riots in Baltimore, 161
Smith, Thomas, arrested in the Patuxent river for trading without a license, 29 commands vessel of Claiborne in a fight with Marylanders, 30 stirs up trouble in Kent Island, 30 condemned to death, 31
Society in colonial Maryland, 21-24, 63-68, 99-III
Sons of the American Revolution, Maryland Society of, mark site of " Old Congress Hall," 119
erect monument to Maryland's Four Hun- dred in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 210 erect monument to General Smallwood, 210-211
erect Maryland Revolutionary monument, 211 Sons of Liberty, 85 South, the life and customs different from those of the North, 99
South, continued slavery in the, 167 controversy with the North over slavery, 168
states of, secede, 170 aided by Maryland after Civil War, 179
South Mountain, battle of, 177
Southern Relief Association, 179
Spaniards in the New World, 2
Spanish-American War, the, 206-208
Stamp Act, the, 84
" Star-Spangled Banner," 153 State Library, 204
State of society. See Manners and Customs and Society
Steamboat, the, of James Rumsey, 140 (footnote)
Steel manufacture, 190-191
Stevens, General, 124
Stewart, Anthony, 87-89
Stirling, General, in battle of Long Island, 115-116
Stone, Thomas, 92
Stone, William, appointed governor, 37 invites Puritans to Maryland, 40 in the Puritan Revolution, 43-45
Stricker, General, in command of Baltimore militia, 150
Suffrage in Maryland, property qualification for, 95
qualification abolished, 163 .
granted to Jews, 163
oaths prescribed for voters, 183
under Constitution of 1867, 184, 185-186 Swedes in Maryland, 53
Talbot, George, kills Christopher Rousby, 58 rescued from prison, 59 pardoned by king, 59
Taney, Chief Justice, 173 Tarleton, Colonel, at Camden, 124 at the battle of Cowpens, 126
Taxation, English principle of, 83
Maryland exempted from, by English gov- ernment, 8, 83, 84 Tea taxed, 85, 87 Telegraph, first, 162 Terrapin, the diamond-back, 189
Theater, first in America claimed by An- napolis, 108
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Thomas, Philip E., first president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 159 Tobacco, the staple in Maryland, 23 used.as money, 23, 51-52, 65-66, 99 trade in, 23, 64 overproduction, 52 rolling roads, 64-65 export of, 101 method of cultivation, 101 raised at present time, 187 Toleration Act, the, 39-40 Puritan, 44 Tories in Somerset and Worcester counties, 122
Towns, slow growth in the early days, 64, 72 growth in later colonial times, 102 Towson, Nathan, 146
town of Towson named for, 146 (footnote) Trade, with England in early times, 23 with Indians for furs, 23 export, in Revolutionary times, 100 at plantation landings, 101 need of trade route to Western Maryland, 142, 155 Chesapeake and Ohio canal built for western, 157
Baltimore and Ohio railroad built for western, 158
of Maryland at present, 192-193
Transportation, 192-193
Travel in early Maryland, 68 Treasurer of Maryland, 183
Valley Forge, 121 Virginia, founded, 3 made a royal colony, 5 colony jealous of Maryland, 27 declares against the Calvert claim to Mary- land, 28-29 takes side of king in civil war, 42 loses in disputes with Maryland, 45 cedes land for Washington city, 144 Voting machines, 186 Voyage of first colonists to Maryland, 14
Wallace, Lew, defeated on the Monocacy, 178 Walters, Henry, 206 Walters' Art Gallery, 206
War of 1812, causes of, 145 declared, 145 attitude of Maryland in, 145-146 military operations of, 146 naval operations of, 146
in Maryland, 147-153 ended by treaty of peace (1814), 153 Warfield, Charles Alexander, 89 Warren, Ratcliffe, 29 Washington, George, sent to Fort Duquesne, 80 commander-in-chief of American army, 113 character, 113 retreats through New Jersey, 118
captures Trenton, 118
receives extraordinary powers, 119 at Brandywine and Germantown, 120
at Monmouth, 121
receives surrender of Cornwallis at York- town, 125 surrenders his commission to Congress, 129 writes letter of thanks to Mrs. Lee of Maryland, 130 president of Constitutional Convention, 139 president of the United States, 139
president of the Potomac Company, 143 selects site for Washington city, 144 Washington, William, at the battle of Cow- pens, 126 Washington city, founded, 144 made capital of the United States, 144 captured by the British, 149 terminal of first telegraph line, 162 Washington College, founded, 143 Washington Monument, 155 Watson, William H., 164
Webster, Colonel, 124
Western Maryland railway, 193 Wheat, grown in early Maryland, 23, 65 raised extensively and exported, 99, 100 grown in the state at present time, 187 White, Father Andrew, writes narrative of the voyage to Maryland, 13 missionary to Indians, 22 William and Mary, king and queen of Eng- land, 56
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William and Mary, continued make Maryland a royal province, 60 Williams, Otho Holland, covers Greene's retreat through the Carolinas, 127 at Eutaw Springs, 128 Winder, William H., 148 Women of Maryland, duties on plantations, 103 dress in colonial times, 105-106
Women of Maryland, continued characteristics of, in the colony, 106 during the Revolution, 1 30 Woods, Albert F., 202 Workmen's Compensation Law, 196
Yeo, a clergyman, 56 Yorktown, surrender of Cornwallis at, 125
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