SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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it stopped all conflicts between Catholics and Protestants
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it was the first law supporting religious tolerance passed in the English colonies
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it provided an example of how a representative democracy can pass laws in a fair and just manner
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it was the first law to allow religious leaders to mandate a religion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Long before the First Amendment was adopted, the assembly of the Province of 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 for nonconformists In 1689, after much debate, Parliament passed the Toleration Act “to unite their Majesties Protestant subjects in interest and affection". It allowed most dissenters – though not all – the freedom to worship publicly, provided they took a simplified version of the oath of allegiance.
Detailed explanation-3: -It continued the existing social and political disabilities for dissenters, including their exclusion from holding political offices and also from the universities. Dissenters were required to register their meeting houses and were forbidden from meeting in private homes. Any preachers who dissented had to be licensed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rhode Island became the first colony with no established church and the first to grant religious freedom to everyone, including Quakers and Jews.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.