Identify the statements that describe Lord Calvert and his vision for Maryland.

1. Lord Calvert was the son of one of King Charles I's favorites and wanted to create a feudal system in Maryland.

2. Lord Calvert was Catholic and wanted Maryland to be a refuge for those Catholics persecuted in England.

Explanation:

Calvert took an interest in the British colonisation of the Americas, at first for commercial reasons and later to create a refuge for persecuted English Catholics. He became the proprietor of Avalon, the first sustained English settlement on the southeastern peninsula on the island of Newfoundland (off the eastern coast of modern Canada). Discouraged by its cold and sometimes inhospitable climate and the sufferings of the settlers, he looked for a more suitable spot further south and sought a new royal charter to settle the region, which would become the state of Maryland. Calvert died five weeks before the new Charter was sealed, leaving the settlement of the Maryland colony to his son Cecil.