SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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the British, to restore order in Massachusetts after the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party
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Nathaniel Bacon, to prevent Jamestown’s indentured servants from rebelling against the Algonquian Indians
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the Puritans, to allow men to vote in their colonies even if they did not belong to God’s “elect”
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Lord Baltimore, to outlaw the restriction of the religious rights of Christians in Maryland
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -The Calvert family, who founded Maryland partly as a refuge for English Catholics, sought enactment of the law to protect Catholic settlers and those of other religions that did not conform to the dominant Anglicanism of Britain and her colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Religious toleration was not new to the men and women of Maryland. Planned by George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, and actually founded by his son Cecil, the province was primarily a haven for persecuted Catholics; yet its founders had welcomed, and even sought, Protestants as settlers.