9. Why was the Act of Toleration enacted (created)?(1 point) Responses to ensure African Americans could maintain their own religious practices to ensure African Americans could maintain their own religious practices to retain (keep) a separation between church and state to retain (keep) a separation between church and state to safeguard freedom of worship to all Christians who lived in Maryland

Answer 1

The Act of Toleration was enacted to safeguard freedom of worship to all Christians who lived in Maryland. It was intended to protect the rights of Catholics and Protestant dissenters in a predominantly Protestant colony, ensuring a degree of religious freedom and reducing conflict among different Christian denominations.