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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 ...
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (/ ˈ b ɔː l t ɪ m ɔːr /; 1580 – 15 April 1632) was an English politician. He achieved domestic political success as a member of parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I.
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
In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians. Passed on September 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland Colony, it was the first law requiring religious tolerance in the English North American colonies.
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 ...
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 ...
The rebellion and its religious overtones was one of the factors that led to passage of the landmark Maryland Toleration Act of 1649, which declared religious tolerance for Catholics and Protestants in Maryland. [33] In 1648 a group of merchants in London applied to Parliament for revocation of the Maryland charter from the Calverts. [34]