Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and three nicknames for it, the Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State are occasionally used.
Maryland in Trail of GloryEdit
After the Battle of Algiers on January 13, 1810, Maryland became one of first states to pass a freedman exclusion act, giving all free Negroes a year to leave the state. When the freedmen ignored the law, Maryland saw subtantial rioting. By 1824, most Negroes were making their way to Arkansas Chiefdom in the Confederacy of the Arkansas. Future Confederate military hero Sheffield Parker was one such freedman.
At the time Grantville arrived in the 17th Century, the Province of Maryland was still an English colony. In 1633, Charles I revoked the Maryland Charter after learning of the American Revolution, and sold every English possession in North America to France. It fell to Thomas Wentworth to inform Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, of what had happened.