Established by the Calvert family in the early 1630s, which colony passed the Toleration Act less than 20 years later, becoming the first in the New World with a law encouraging religious tolerance?

Maryland was established as a refuge for Catholics by the father-son team of George and Cecil Calvert. Many of the residents were Protestant, however, and the colony became a model for religious tolerance.

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