COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
Question
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Paid a fine of five pound sterling
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Paid a fine of ten pound sterling
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Public whipping
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Death
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -As the first law on religious tolerance in the British North America, it influenced related laws in other colonies and portions of it were echoed in the writing of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom in American law.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Toleration Act of 1649 was passed in Maryland because the Protestants outnumbered the Catholics. New York began as a Dutch trading post. Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 because: a seperatist who believed the government had no authority over religious matters.