Lord Baltimore

(noun)

An English peer who was the first Proprietor and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland, and ninth Proprietary Governor of the Colony of Newfoundland.

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Examples of Lord Baltimore in the following topics:

  • Maryland

    • The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore and as a haven for English Roman Catholics in the New World.
    • Maryland's foundational charter created a state ruled by Lord Baltimore, who directly owned all of the land granted in the charter.
    • The charter created an aristocracy of lords of the manor who bought land from Baltimore and held greater legal and social privileges than the common settlers.
    • In Maryland, Baltimore sought to create a haven for English Roman Catholics and to demonstrate that Catholics and Protestants could live together harmoniously.
    • Baltimore became the second-most important port in the 18th century South, after Charleston, South Carolina.
  • Settling the Southern Colonies

    • The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore, who wished to create a haven for Roman Catholics in the New World at the time of the European wars of religion.
    • The cities of Baltimore in Maryland and Richmond in Virginia served as major seaports for the colonies in their trade with Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
  • The Baltimore Virus Classification

    • The Baltimore classification groups viruses into families depending on their type of genome.
    • Baltimore classification (first defined in 1971) is a classification system that places viruses into one of seven groups depending on a combination of their nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), strandedness (single-stranded or double-stranded), Sense, and method of replication .
    • Named after David Baltimore, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, these groups are designated by Roman numerals and discriminate viruses depending on their mode of replication and genome type.
    • List the characteristics of viruses that are useful for Baltimore classification
  • Governors and Assemblies

    • The Board of Trade (originally known as the Lords of Trade or Lords of Trade and Plantations) was a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, first established as a temporary committee of inquiry in the 17th century that evolved gradually into a government department with a diverse range of functions.
    • It was designed by Baltimore architect R.
  • The Founding of Carolina

    • The Province of Carolina was created when Charles II rewarded the Lords Proprietor lands that include the modern day Carolinas and Georgia.
    • They named their colony Carolina, and they themselves were called the Lords Proprietors.
    • The Province of Carolina was controlled from 1663 to 1729 by these lords and their heirs.
    • The most active in the colonies was Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftsbury.
    • The Earl of Clarendon was one of eight Lords Proprietor given title to the Province of Carolina.
  • Feudalism

    • A lord was in broad terms a noble who held land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and a fief was what the land was known as.
    • In exchange for the use of the fief and the protection of the lord, the vassal would provide some sort of service to the lord.
    • Before a lord could grant land (a fief) to someone, he had to make that person a vassal.
    • During homage, the lord and vassal entered into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, while the lord agreed to protect the vassal from external forces.
    • The vassal's principal obligation to the lord was "aid," or military service.
  • The War in the Chesapeake

    • Secretary of War John Armstrong insisted that the British would attack Baltimore rather than Washington, even when the British Army was obviously on its way to the capital.
    • The subsequent Battle of Baltimore began with the British landing at North Point, where they were met by American militia.
    • The British also attempted to attack Baltimore by sea on September 13 but were unable to reduce Fort McHenry at the entrance to Baltimore Harbor, due to recent fortifications.
    • All the lights were extinguished in Baltimore the night of the attack, and the fort was bombarded for 25 hours.
    • Describe the burning of Washington, D.C. and the subsequent battles of Baltimore and Fort McHenry
  • The Manor System

    • Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in the lord of a manor.
    • The lord was supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor (sometimes called a fief), and from the obligatory contributions of the peasant population who fell under the jurisdiction of the lord and his court.
    • As part of the contract with the landlord, the lord of the manor, they were expected to spend some of their time working on the lord's fields.
    • Villeins were tied to the land and could not move away without their lord's consent and the acceptance of the lord to whose manor they proposed to migrate to.
    • Illustrate the hierarchy of the manor system by describing the roles of lords, villeins, and serfs
  • Virus Classification

    • The most commonly-used classification method today is called the Baltimore classification scheme which is based on how messenger RNA (mRNA) is generated in each particular type of virus.
    • The most commonly-used system of virus classification was developed by Nobel Prize-winning biologist David Baltimore in the early 1970s.
    • In addition to the differences in morphology and genetics mentioned above, the Baltimore classification scheme groups viruses according to how the mRNA is produced during the replicative cycle of the virus.
    • The Baltimore classification scheme, the most commonly used, was developed by Nobel Prize-winning biologist David Baltimore in the early 1970s.
  • Settling the Colonial South and the Chesapeake

    • The cities of Baltimore and Richmond served as major seaports for the colonies in their trade with Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
    • Similarly in Carolina a number of counties are named, most of which refer to the Lords Proprietors, including Albemarle, Clarenden, and Craven.
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