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Life of Baltimore Baltimore played a key part in events leading to and including the American Revolution . City leaders such as Jonathan Plowman Jr. moved the city to join the resistance to British taxation. Baltimore joined other cities in protesting Boston 's punishment by the British by banding together the merchants to sign agreements to not import from or export to Britain. Dr. John Stevenson and Jonathan Plowman Jr. made Baltimore a center for importation of indentured servants from England during the seventeen fifties and sixties. Baltimore in seventeen seventy-three was also the place where a Customs officer Robert Moreton was chased out of town for trying to seize the ship Speedwell and its cargo . The story is that Mr. Moreton had ordered the captain to wait on offloading till after he came back. The merchants demanded their cargo and started off loading. When Mr. Moreton returned he declared the ship seized and went to Annapolis to file the paperwork. Upon his return the local merchants chased him and tarred and feathered two men who worked for him. Fearing for his life he first fled to Annapolis and later to Boston. Baltimore's climate, with plentiful precipitation and a relatively long growing season, supports the presence of many different types of trees. Many species of trees thrive here and can be spotted throughout the city, including white oak, elm, maple, sycamore, bradford pear, poplar, southern magnolia, several species of Hardy palms and crepe myrtle . The city lies mostly in Plant Hardiness Zone eight, with a small portion of the northern and western city in zone seven. The average date of first freeze in Baltimore is November thirteenth, and the average last freeze is April second. Baltimore has a humid subtropical climate, according to the Köppen classification, with moderating influence from its relative proximity to the ocean. It gets relatively hot, humid summers and cool, moist winters. |
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