WORLD HISTORY

COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM

COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS

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Read the following selection and answer the question that follows:Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 “That whatever person or persons within this Province and the Islands belonging to it shall from henceforth (now on) blaspheme God, or deny that our Savior Jesus Christ is the Son of God, or shall deny that the holy Trinity is the unity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, or shall use or utter any reproachful speeches, words, or language concerning the said Holy Trinity, or any of the said three persons thereof, shall be punished with death, and all his or her lands and goods will be given to the Lord Proprietary and his heirs.” What happened to a person who disobeyed the rules that were laid out by this part of the Toleration Act of 1649?
A
Paid a fine of five pound sterling
B
Paid a fine of ten pound sterling
C
Public whipping
D
Death
Explanation: 

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.

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