SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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the law was the first to mandate religious freedom in the colonies
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the law became a model for other North American colonies
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the law led to a Catholic takeover of the colonial assembly in Maryland
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the law gave religious freedom to all non-Christians in Maryland
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Detailed explanation-1: -The law granted religious freedom to all non-Christians in Maryland. Answer: The law granted religious freedom to all non-christians in Maryland.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 ensured religious freedoms to Christian settlers of different denominations who settled in Massachusetts. Lawmakers hoped that it made Massachusetts a more desirable location for immigration and was the first law to protect religious freedom in the Thirteen Colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cecil Calvert, the first proprietor of the Province of Maryland and the 2nd Lord Baltimore, wrote the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649, prohibiting discrimination of Trinitarian Christians.
Detailed explanation-4: -It created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body of an organized colonial government to guarantee any degree of religious liberty. Specifically, the bill, now usually referred to as the Toleration Act, granted freedom of conscience to all Christians.
Detailed explanation-5: -Toleration Act, (May 24, 1689), act of Parliament granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e., dissenting Protestants such as Baptists and Congregationalists). It was one of a series of measures that firmly established the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) in England.