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The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was the first law in North America requiring religious tolerance for Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City in St. Mary's County, Maryland. It created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body ...
The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 allowed Catholics freedom of worship for 40 years. Maryland had long practiced an uneasy form of religious tolerance among different groups of Christians. In 1649, Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian ...
Maryland became a prime tobacco exporting colony in the mid-Atlantic and, for a time, a refuge for Catholic settlers, as George Calvert had hoped. [107] Under the rule of the Lords Baltimore, thousands of British Catholics emigrated to Maryland, establishing some of the oldest Catholic communities in what later became the United States. [ 107 ]
By choosing Stone, Calvert could avoid the criticism that Maryland was a seat of Popery where Protestants were allegedly oppressed. Stone and his council, however, were required to agree not to interfere with freedom of worship, [12] and in 1649, the colonial assembly passed the Maryland Toleration Act ensuring freedom of religion within ...
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675) was an English politician and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland.Born in Kent, England in 1605, he inherited the proprietorship of overseas colonies in Avalon (Newfoundland) (off the eastern coast of the North America continent), along with Maryland after the 1632 death of his father, George Calvert, 1st Baron ...
Almost ten years after the "Plundering Time" hostilities erupted once again between Maryland Protestants and the Catholic minority within the colony at the Battle of the Severn, a Puritan victory now present-day Annapolis. The Maryland colonial assembly issued the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 to mollify the two
Calvert may also have had an illegitimate son, Charles Calvert Lazenby, born in England in 1688, who would grow up to have a career in the army and later become Governor of Maryland in his own right. [15] Captain Calvert's parents have never been positively identified but it has long been assumed that his father was the 3rd Baron Baltimore.
In 1644 Claiborne led an uprising of Maryland Protestants. Calvert was forced to flee to Virginia, but he returned at the head of an armed force in 1646 and reasserted proprietarial rule. A large broadside of the Maryland Toleration Act. Maryland soon became one of the few predominantly Catholic regions among the English colonies in North America.