Q 01/05

Maryland was named in honor of which French-born queen consort, a Catholic married to England's Protestant king?

A) Catherine of Braganza

B) Henrietta Maria

C) Isabella of France

D) Mary of Modena

Answer · why

B) Henrietta Maria

Henrietta Maria was the youngest daughter of Henry IV of France, and the charter's Latin name for the colony, Terra Mariae, simply means Mary's Land.

Q 02/05

Under the 1632 charter, what did Lord Baltimore owe the Crown each Easter as rent for the whole of Maryland?

A) Forty beaver pelts

B) A cask of oysters

C) A dozen deerskins

D) Two Indian arrows

Answer · why

D) Two Indian arrows

Two Indian arrows were due at Windsor Castle every Easter, along with a fifth of any gold and silver found: a token rent that kept the land legally th...

Q 03/05

Which songbird carries Lord Baltimore's name because the male's orange and black resembled the Calvert coat of arms?

A) Oriole

B) Cardinal

C) Goldfinch

D) Bluebird

Answer · why

A) Oriole

Oriole is the bird: the Baltimore oriole was named for the family's heraldic colors, and it is now Maryland's state bird and the mascot of its basebal...

Q 04/05

Which cash crop so dominated colonial Maryland's economy that colonists used it in place of money?

A) Cotton

B) Indigo

C) Tobacco

D) Sugar cane

Answer · why

C) Tobacco

Tobacco was planted from the first season, and English ships loaded it straight from riverside plantation wharves, so the colony barely needed port to...

Q 05/05

Which famous boundary, surveyed in the 1760s, settled colonial Maryland's long-disputed northern border?

A) Proclamation Line

B) Mason–Dixon line

C) Fairfax Line

D) Ellicott's Line

Answer · why

B) Mason–Dixon line

The Mason–Dixon line, surveyed from 1763 to 1767, closed an 80-year quarrel over overlapping royal grants and later became shorthand for the divide be...