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Toleration Act |
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Toleration Act(1689) Act of the British Parliament that granted freedom of worship to Nonconformists, allowing them their own places of worship and their own teachers and preachers. The act did not apply to Catholics and Unitarians and continued the existing social and political prohibitions, such as exclusion from political office, that applied to dissenters from the Church of England. |
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| The restoration of Baltimore brought the 1649 Toleration Act, which stipulated that "no person or persons whatsoever in this province . Further inflaming Baptist anger, a powerful combination of government officials and church leaders essentially ignored the Toleration Act, working in tandem to make it next to impossible for adherents of dissenting faiths to opt out. He noted with pride that the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 was the first in the Americas to establish any form of official religious toleration. |
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