USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Chesapeake Colonies were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Province of Maryland, later Maryland, both colonies located in British America and centered on the Chesapeake Bay.

Detailed explanation-2: -THE CHESAPEAKE COLONIES: VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. The Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland served a vital purpose in the developing seventeenth-century English empire by providing tobacco, a cash crop.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chesapeake Colonies: Virginia, Maryland.

Detailed explanation-4: -Maryland became the first proprietary English colony in North America. Leonard Calvert, the younger brother of Cecilius, was appointed the governor of the new colony and set sail with three hundred colonists on two ships, the Ark and the Dove. They arrived at St. Mary’s, Maryland on March 27, 1634.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1632 the Crown set aside the land at the northern head of Chesapeake Bay as a second colony, named “Maryland” after the queen of the new monarch, Charles I (son of James).