The American History Podcast, Season 1, Episode 6, Maryland and the Carolinas.

Welcome to the American History podcast.

Hosted by Sean Worswick.

Thank you. Hosted by Sean Worswick. All right, welcome back.

Originally, this episode was released in the summer of 2017.

It is now the summer of 2020, and in celebration of our third anniversary, I'm remastering

all of these early episodes to bring the sound quality up to snuff, so to speak.

I just wanted to mention that, as well as note that for this episode, I'm not really

changing the script.

Okay, so with that said, on with the show as originally written.

Welcome to episode six, the Southern Colonies Part 2.

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We spoke about the founding of Virginia,

and I'd like you to keep those dates in mind. Remember, well before the founding of Plymouth Colony,

you get the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia. You also had the Virginia House of Burgesses passing

laws before the arrival of the pilgrims. All right, let's take a look at Maryland now.

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