THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Made restricting rights of Native Americans a crime
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Gave freedom of religion to everyone
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Made restricting religious rights of christians a crime
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Forced people to believe in Christianity
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Specifically, the bill, now usually referred to as the Toleration Act, granted freedom of conscience to all Christians. Religious toleration was not new to the men and women of Maryland.
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: -role of Calvert Religion, later famous as the Act of Religious Toleration. It granted freedom of worship, though only within the bounds of Trinitarian Christianity. One of the earliest laws of religious liberty, it was limited to Christians and repealed in 1692.
Detailed explanation-5: -Edict of Milan, proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman Empire. It was the outcome of a political agreement concluded in Mediolanum (modern Milan) between the Roman emperors Constantine I and Licinius in February 313.