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.
When European settlers came over to the New World, they brought many diseases with them that the Native Americans had no immunity to. For this reason, they started dying from sicknesses and decrease their numbers by the millions.
A mass extincrion. It wiped out 95% of marine life and 70% of land life.
None - Barack Obama was the first black president.
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