SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Toleration Act
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Stamp Act
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Religious Freedom Act
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The Baltimore Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Maryland Act of Toleration, passed in 1649, was significant in that it provided religious freedom to Christians. Maryland passed “An Act Concerning Religion, ” also called the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The act was meant to ensure freedom of religion for Christian settlers of diverse persuasions in the colony.
Detailed explanation-2: -Toleration Act made blasphemy a crime The law made it a crime to blaspheme God, the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Mary, or the early apostles and evangelists. It also forbade one resident from referring to another’s religion in a disparaging way and it provided for honoring the Sabbath.
Detailed explanation-3: -Catholics outlawed In the Bill of Rights of 1689 Parliament declared that no future monarch could be a Catholic or be married to a Catholic.
Detailed explanation-4: -Toleration Act passed: compulsory attendance at parish churches abolished. Act prohibiting trade with the Royalist colonies Virginia, Bermuda, Barbados and Antigua. General-at-Sea Ayscue to be sent to recover Barbados.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.