The Founding of Maryland and Carolina


  1. Maryland
    1. Origin--A Proprietary Colony (1632)
      1. The Calverts
      2. Powers--a "County Palatine"
        1. Landed Estates
        2. Manorial Courts
        3. Rule by Nobility
        4. Religious Purpose--a Catholic Colony
    2. Feudalism vs. Commercial Purpose
      1. The Need to Attract Settlers
        1. Loosening Grip on the Land--Headrights Again
        2. Abandonment of Manorial Courts
        3. Representative Assembly (1638)
        4. Religious Toleration
      2. Results
        1. Major Influx of Settlers, BUT
        2. Insubordination to Calverts, Nobility
        3. Religious Strife
        4. Revolution--The "Protestant Association" of 1689
  2. Carolina
    1. Origins
      1. The Restoration of 1662 and the Eight "Lords Proprietors"
      2. A Colony of a Colony--Barbados
        1. Shift to Sugar and Slaves
        2. Need for Fresh Land for White Settlers
      3. Organization--The "Fundamental Constitutions"
        1. Large Landed Estates (Again)
        2. A Noble Hierarchy--"Landgraves" and "Caciques"
        3. Forced Labor--Slaves and White "Leetmen"
        4. Inducements to Settlers
          1. Headrights
          2. Religious Toleration
    2. Breakdown--The Maryland Pattern
      1. The Founding of Charleston (1670)
      2. Abandonment of Fundamental Constitutions
      3. Increasing Strife--Settlers vs. Proprietors
        1. Religion--Settler Intolerance vs. Proprietor Tolerance
        2. Trade With Native Americans, Pirates
      4. The Proprietors Overthrown (1719)
  3. Falling Into a Common Pattern
    1. Entrepreneurial
    2. Plantation-Oriented