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.
The answer to this question is "Civil rights and feminism"