Jan. 17, 2023 12:52 pm ET. Many of its citizens subsequently played key political and military roles in the war. Racial Makeup of Maryland excluding Hispanics from racial categories (2019)[113]NH = Non-Hispanic, Spanish (including Spanish Creole) is the second most spoken language in Maryland, after English. [136] More recent European immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th century settled first in Baltimore, attracted to its industrial jobs. Cumberland was Maryland's second-largest city in the 19th century. The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that Maryland's gross state product in 2016 was $382.4billion. Towson University, founded in 1866, is the state's second largest university. The once-mighty primary metals sub-sector, which once included what was then the largest steel factory in the world at Sparrows Point, still exists, but is pressed with foreign competition, bankruptcies, and mergers. The Eastern Shore is served primarily by broadcast media based around the Delmarva Peninsula; the northeastern section receives both Baltimore and Philadelphia stations. Baltimore was a major war production center during World War II. free bet of $100. *MD only. At the time, the state Supreme Court wrote a decision upholding marriage discrimination. Information reported to the hotline in the past has helped to eliminate certain fraudulent activities and protect State resources. In an effort to reverse depopulation due to the loss of working-class industries, Baltimore initiated urban renewal projects in the 1960s with Charles Center and the Baltimore World Trade Center. Mobs burned down all the original Catholic churches of southern Maryland. [198], Baltimore is home to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the Maryland Institute College of Art. One of the original 13 states, it lies at the centre of the Eastern Seaboard, amid the great commercial and population complex that stretches from Maine to Virginia. In western Maryland, the higher elevations of Allegany and Garrett counties, including the cities of Cumberland, Frostburg, and Oakland, display more characteristics of the humid continental zone, due in part to elevation. Westley Watende Omari Moore, 44, was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington. Baltimore was the seat of the first Catholic bishop in the U.S. (1789), and Emmitsburg was the home and burial place of the first American-born citizen to be canonized, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Calvert Marine Museum reveals a 35-foot-long Megalodon Shark skeleton. Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. One of these places is Fort McHenry, which defended against the British Empire during the War of 1812. The 2006 election brought no change in the pattern of Democratic dominance. Historians debate the constitutionality of these wartime actions, and the suspension of civil liberties was later deemed illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Maryland General Assemblys Office of Legislative Audits operates a toll-free fraud hotline to receive allegations of fraud and/or abuse of State government resources. In Southern Maryland, history and culture mingle on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Following the end of Reconstruction in 1877, Democrats devised means of disenfranchising blacks, initially by physical intimidation and voter fraud, later by constitutional amendments and laws. [170][171], Freight rail transport is handled principally by two Class I railroads, as well as several smaller regional and local carriers. We may be able to help you. The Puritan revolutionary government persecuted Maryland Catholics during its reign, known as the "plundering time". My state has shown how to achieve real prosperity in our hyperpolarized times. With more than 400 biotechnology companies located there, Maryland is the fourth largest nexus in this field in the United States.[162]. The Congressional Country Club has hosted three golf tournaments for the U.S. Open and a PGA Championship. The shares of European immigrants born in Eastern Europe increased significantly between 1990 and 2010. Existing facilities, including Fort McHenry, were greatly expanded. Typical forms of manufacturing include electronics, computer equipment, and chemicals. [70] They are believed to be descended from horses who escaped from Spanish galleon shipwrecks. Maryland experienced population growth following World War II. [citation needed] Primary and secondary education in Maryland is overseen by the Maryland State Department of Education, which is headquartered in Baltimore. Nearly half the black population was free before the war, and some had accumulated property. km, the State of Maryland is located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The Maryland General Assemblys Office of Legislative Audits operates a toll-free fraud hotline to receive allegations of fraud and/or abuse of State government resources. [118] Most are descendants of people transported to the area as slaves from West Africa, and many are of mixed race, including European and Native American ancestry. I-97, fully contained within Anne Arundel County and the shortest (17.6 miles (28.3km)) one- or two-digit interstate highway in the contiguous US, connects the Baltimore area to the Annapolis area. Maryland is the only state with a motto in Italian. Two of Maryland's counties, Howard and Montgomery, are the second and eleventh wealthiest counties in the nation respectively. Mixed-race children born to white mothers were considered free by the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, by which children took the social status of their mothers, a principle of slave law that was adopted throughout the colonies, following Virginia in 1662. I-595, which is an unsigned highway concurrent with US50/US301, is the longest unsigned interstate in the country and connects Prince George's County and Washington, D.C. with Annapolis and the Eastern Shore via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Historically, these and many other Maryland cities developed along the Fall Line, the line along which rivers, brooks, and streams are interrupted by rapids and waterfalls. Most of the state's waterways are part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, with the exceptions of a tiny portion of extreme western Garrett County (drained by the Youghiogheny River as part of the watershed of the Mississippi River), the eastern half of Worcester County (which drains into Maryland's Atlantic coastal bays), and a small portion of the state's northeast corner (which drains into the Delaware River watershed). Most of the population of Maryland lives in the central region of the state, in the Baltimore metropolitan area and Washington metropolitan area, both of which are part of the BaltimoreWashington metropolitan area. Institutions and government agencies with an interest in research and development located in Maryland include the Johns Hopkins University, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, more than one campus of the University System of Maryland, Goddard Space Flight Center, the United States Census Bureau, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Celera Genomics company, the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), and AstraZeneca (formerly MedImmune). [50] The state capital of Annapolis offers sites such as the state capitol building, the historic district, and the waterfront. The House of Delegates passed the "Act concerning Religion" in 1649 granting religious liberty to all Trinitarian Christians.[28]. Your signature at the MVA will become your official voter registration signature. The state is bounded to the north by the Mason-Dixon line that forms the border with Pennsylvania.The Potomac River creates most of its border with West Virginia and Virginia in the west; in the east, it borders Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean on the Delmarva peninsula. Maryland is the first state with an official state exercise.[205]. Maryland, one of the 50 US states, is located in the Mid-Atlantic region in the northeast of the United States. A large majority (57%) of Maryland voters said they would vote to uphold the freedom to marry, with 37% saying they would vote against. They purchased the site from the paramount chief of the region, who was eager to establish trade. The information below reflects cases tested from January 26, 2021 - December 30, 2022. [132], In 2006, 645,744 were counted as foreign born, which represents mainly people from Latin America and Asia. [144] The Seventh-day Adventist Church's world headquarters and Ahmadiyya Muslims' national headquarters are located in Silver Spring, just outside the District of Columbia. [138] By 2031, minorities are projected to become the majority of voting eligible residents of Maryland.[139]. [195] Three Maryland high schools (in Montgomery County) were ranked among the top 100 in the country by US News in 2009, based in large part on AP test scores.[196]. The airport is named for the Baltimore-born Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice. In 2012, The Baltimore Sun published a list of Maryland's top ten athletes in the state's history. [43] Of the 115,000 Marylanders who joined the military during the Civil War, around 85,000, or 77%, joined the Union army, while the remainder joined the Confederate Army. In 2014, Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican,[186] was elected Governor of Maryland. In addition, many suburban counties operate local bus systems which connect to and complement the larger MTA and WMATA/Metro services. A modest volume of annual precipitation helps to support many types of plants, including seagrass and various reeds at the smaller end of the spectrum to the gigantic Wye Oak, a huge example of white oak, the state tree, which can grow over 70 feet (21m) tall. Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center. Maryland possesses a variety of topography within its borders, contributing to its nickname America in Miniature. In 1704, the Maryland General Assembly prohibited Catholics from operating schools, limited the corporate ownership of property to hamper religious orders from expanding or supporting themselves, and encouraged the conversion of Catholic children. In 1974, Maryland, along with seven other states, mainly in the South, submitted plans to desegregate its state universities; Maryland's plans were approved by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. We also provide stable environments for at-risk children and adults. Maryland's early settlements and population centers clustered around rivers and other waterways that empty into the Chesapeake Bay. The Maryland General Assemblys Office of Legislative Audits operates a toll-free fraud hotline to receive allegations of fraud and/or abuse of State government resources. Information reported to the hotline in the past has helped to eliminate certain fraudulent activities and protect State resources. Generally, rural Western Maryland between the West Virginian Panhandle and Pennsylvania has an Appalachian culture; the Southern and Eastern Shore regions of Maryland embody a Southern culture,[97] The eastern half of Maryland which includes the cities of Ocean City, Salisbury, Annapolis, and the southern and eastern suburbs of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore lies on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, with flat topography and sandy or muddy soil. [59], Maryland has shale formations containing natural gas, where fracking is theoretically possible.[60]. As observed on the map, the eastern half of Maryland is dominated by the Chesapeake Bay and the surrounding estuaries and coastal plains. Maryland also has an 11-mile (18km) portion of I-81 that travels through the state near Hagerstown. In 1642, a number of Puritans left Virginia for Maryland and founded Providence (now called Annapolis) on the western shore of the upper Chesapeake Bay. The Republic of Maryland (also known variously as the Independent State of Maryland, Maryland-in-Africa, and Maryland in Liberia) was a country in West Africa that existed from 1834 to 1857, when it was merged into what is now Liberia. The University of Maryland, College Park is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities. As you navigate through the component with assistive technologies, ARIA roles and instructions are read aloud. About four percent are undocumented immigrants. Maryland ranks 40th in total energy consumption nationwide, and it managed less toxic waste per capita than all but six states in 2005. Western Maryland Capital Region Central Maryland Eastern Shore Southern Maryland Frederick National Harbor Deep Creek Hagerstown Baltimore Annapolis Ocean City Bethesda Cambridge St. Marys City St. Michaels Chesapeake City Columbia Cumberland Washington, DC. Some resulted in the break-up of intact residential neighborhoods, producing social volatility, and some older residential areas around the harbor have had units renovated and have become popular with new populations. Their tobacco crops were successful and quickly made the new colony profitable. The Maryland General Assembly has given the Superintendent and State Board autonomy to make educationally related decisions, limiting its influence on the day-to-day functions of public education. Per the Constitution of Maryland, Hogan is term-limited, and may not run for a third consecutive term in the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election. Half the population lived in cities. 21+. Two state-funded institutions, Morgan State University and St. Mary's College of Maryland, as well as two federally funded institutions, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the United States Naval Academy, are not affiliated with the University System of Maryland. Numerous Indian Americans live across the state, especially in central Maryland. Baltimore[12] is the largest city in the state, and the capital is Annapolis. Maryland Port Administration. Major rail yards are located in Baltimore and Cumberland,[172] with an intermodal terminal (rail, truck and marine) in Baltimore.[173]. [44] Following passage of constitutional amendments that granted voting rights to freedmen, in 1867 the state extended suffrage to non-white males. [94] The United States Census Bureau estimated that the population of Maryland was 6,045,680 on July 1, 2019, a 4.71% increase from the 2010 United States census and an increase of 2,962, from the prior year. [70] The ponies and their sale were popularized by the children's book, Misty of Chincoteague. Attracting educated Asians and Africans to the professional jobs in the region, Maryland has the fifth-largest proportions of racial minorities in the country. Maryland state lawmakers are learning more about the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down a New York conceal carry law. [193] Data from the 2017 census shows that, among large school districts, four Maryland districts are in the top six for per-pupil annual spending, exceeded only by the Boston and New York City districts.[194]. [30] The celebration of the Catholic sacraments was also officially restricted. We work together to support and improve the health and safety of all Marylanders through disease pre vention, access to care, quality management, and community engagement. The University of Maryland Global Campus is the largest public university in Maryland[199] and one of the largest distance-learning institutions in the world.[200]. The "Bonus Army" marched through the state in 1932 on its way to Washington, D.C. Maryland instituted its first income tax in 1937 to generate revenue for schools and welfare. 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