During the 1700s, the English KIng Charles I granted the colonial Province of Maryland to Sir George Calvert who was the first Baron Baltimore and the King's former Secretary of State. Lord Baltimore, who had converted to Catholicism and proclaimed publicly his faith, began Maryland for the Catholics (Option A). When Calvert died in 1632, the charter for the Maryland Colony was passed to his son, the second Baron Baltimore. Finally, the settlement began in 1634. Nevertheless, the Province of Maryland, which had begun as a British colony in North America, joined in rebellion with other British colonies in order to declare independence from Britain in 1776 and so became the U.S. state of Maryland.
