ruled, they were, except in name, a free and independent

* With the exceptions of brief intervals of quietness, the civil war in Mary-
land lasted about seven years, when the authority of Lord Baltimore was
fully restored. In 1691 King William made Sir Lionel Copley governor.
Maryland was then said to be a "crown colony." Finally, in 1715, King
George I. returned to the fifth Lord Baltimore all the rights which had been
granted by Charles 1. to the head of his line eighty-three years before.
76. Uow did the revolution affect Virginia and Maryland ?

77. How did New England fare at the hands of Cromwell ? What l» said of the
union of New England colonies f Why was not Rhode Island included ? Am, Be-
cause her settlers differed in religious opinions from those of the other colonies.
New England.
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people. Four of their colonies, Massachnsetts, Plymonth,
Connecticut, and New Haven, had formed a union for pro-
tection against their Dutch
neighbors on the west, the
French on the east, and the
Indians in their midst (1643).
What now could there be
to mar their peace and hap-
piness ?

78. Alas ! a trouble ap-
peared, lasting five years, in

which they were greatly to

blame. It makes a doleful

page in the history of the

Massachusetts colony.
