US Catholscm Topic Essay 3 
Ken Pulmones Topic Essay 3 02/27/14
The family in charge for the establishment of Maryland was the Calverts. Primarily Roman Catholic, the Calvert’s at the onset did not establish the Maryland colony as an asylum or refuge for Catholics. Rather fist and foremost the colony was established as a commercial enterprise, with profit, not religion as the primary impulse. Cecil Calvert, who was in charge of colonization, made sure that religious tolerance as a key element in the Maryland Design. He realized that to achieve success in the New World he had to be open minded about religion. Cecil’s brother Leonard Calvert was deputized as governor for the new Maryland colony. In February 1635, he summoned the first assembly and in the following years he passed the Maryland Toleration Act that allowed freedom of worship for all Trinitarian Christians. Despite the religious tolerance 17th century England was not very peaceful. Since Calvert sided with the king against Parliament, his colony was under flack by Puritan supporters. Richard Ingle an tobacco trader and supporter of Puritanism led a contingent of Virginia adventurers and soldier and invaded and captured the capital of the Maryland Colony (St. Mary’s City) in 1645. For two years Maryland was in a state of chaos with a population divided. The government ceased to function and priest and Jesuits were imprisoned and/or sent back to England to be persecuted. Ingle’s Rebellion caused a back and forth shift of power between Protestants and Calverts, until eventually the Glorious Revolution of William and Mary caused an uprising in 1688-89 that resulted in the Calverts being overthrown, the end of religious toleration and in 1692 the Church of England became the official state religion in Maryland.
The family in charge for the establishment of Maryland was the Calverts. Primarily Roman Catholic, the Calvert’s at the onset did not establish the Maryland colony as an asylum or refuge for Catholics. Rather fist and foremost the colony was established as a commercial enterprise, with profit, not religion as the primary impulse. Cecil Calvert, who was in charge of colonization, made sure that religious tolerance as a key element in the Maryland Design. He realized that to achieve success in the New World he had to be open minded about religion. Cecil’s brother Leonard Calvert was deputized as governor for the new Maryland colony. In February 1635, he summoned the first assembly and in the following years he passed the Maryland Toleration Act that allowed freedom of worship for all Trinitarian Christians. Despite the religious tolerance 17th century England was not very peaceful. Since Calvert sided with the king against Parliament, his colony was under flack by Puritan supporters. Richard Ingle an tobacco trader and supporter of Puritanism led a contingent of Virginia adventurers and soldier and invaded and captured the capital of the Maryland Colony (St. Mary’s City) in 1645. For two years Maryland was in a state of chaos with a population divided. The government ceased to function and priest and Jesuits were imprisoned and/or sent back to England to be persecuted. Ingle’s Rebellion caused a back and forth shift of power between Protestants and Calverts, until eventually the Glorious Revolution of William and Mary caused an uprising in 1688-89 that resulted in the Calverts being overthrown, the end of religious toleration and in 1692 the Church of England became the official state religion in Maryland.