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Maryland Primary Sources Gallopade International

The Maryland Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Maryland.

The Maryland Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:

Analysis
Critical Thinking
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
Order of Events
And Much More!

Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!

The 20 Maryland Primary Sources are:
1. Illustration of the State House, Annapolis, Maryland circa 1800
2. Copy of broadside printing of the "Defense of Fort McHenry," a poem by Francis Scott Key that later became the national anthem of the United States 1814
3. Painting of Samuel Chase Maryland signer of the Declaration of Independence and Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court 1836
4. Advertisement for reward for runaway slave Rockville, Maryland 1845
5. Photograph of Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1849 and led hundreds of other slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad circa 1850
6. Etching of Cape Palmas in Liberia founded by Maryland State Colonization Society as a colony for ex-slaves circa 1853
7. Photograph of abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 photo taken 1856
8. Photograph of members of the 3rd Maryland Infantry circa 1860
9. Sketch of the interior of a Civil War-era Sibley tent sketched at Camp John A. Andrew near Annapolis 1861
10. Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln with Major Allan Pinkerton (head of Union Intelligence Service) and General John McClernand at Antietam, Maryland October 1862
11. Advertisement for the Bal