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What colonies had religious tolerance?

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Rhode Island was tolerant for all religion's

Georgia was tolerant for all religions (except Jew's

Virginia was tolerant for all but Christian's

South Carolina was tolerant for all religions

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The Maryland colony's record of religious toleration is pretty good. Such had been George Calvert's hope. Before Ark and Dove set sail on St. Cecilia's Day, 22 November 1633, Calvert (the Lord Baltimore) had warned his Catholic coreligionists to be "very carefull to preserve unity and peace" between Protestants and Catholics both on the voyage and afterward -- and to project what we, today, would call a "low profile" so as not to antagonize the neighboring Virginians, who were predominately communicants of the Church of England. There is evidence that within a year or two of landing on 25 March 1634 on the island the Marylanders named St. Clement's and moving to a headland near where the Potomac River widens as it enters Chesapeake Bay they had enacted an "Act of Religious Toleration." But no text of it survives. A document that does survive came in 1649 and is usually referred to as "Maryland's Act of Religious Toleration." It provides that "noe person … professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth bee in any waies troubled, Molested, or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof." Modern partisans of an earlier enactment have, however, examined records of the colonial courts and report that, by-and-large, punishments imposed upon Protestants (including visiting Virginians) were comparable to those received by the colony's Roman Catholics.

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