Which of these laws was enacted to protect Maryland's Catholics? O A. the Act of Catholic Protection
O B. the Act of Toleration
O C. the Law of Religious Freedom
O D. the Maryland Compact

B. The Act of Toleration

1649 the Maryland Governor passed the act.
Stated that all believers in Jesus should tolerate each other. Protestantism was gaining the upper hand, in a colony founded by Catholics fleeing persecution in England and parts of Europe.

WASP: White, Anglo Saxon, Protestant was prevailing prejudice in most of the colonies. Catholics were kept out of political office, upward mobility was limited.

Cities with shipyards decline because so many ships had been sent overseas