SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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The Maryland Assembly passed the first American law guaranteeing religious freedom.
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The Colony went to war with Virginia in order to ensure religious freedom.
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Colonists who didn’t believe in religious freedom left the area.
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The Colony failed because Calvert was too focused on ensuring religious freedom.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What lasting effect did Calvert’s beliefs about religious freedom have on the Colony of Maryland? The Maryland Assembly passed the first American law guaranteeing religious freedom. The Colony went to war with Virginia in order to ensure religious freedom.
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: -All the Maryland colonists wanted, the Calverts explained, was to worship freely as Catholics and live in peace and harmony with their neighbors.
Detailed explanation-4: -Religious conflict was strong in ensuing years as the American Puritans, growing more numerous in Maryland and supported by Puritans in England, set out to revoke the religious freedoms guaranteed in the founding of the colony.