History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0465 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Toleration Act and Who It Excluded
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The idea
The sixteen eighty-nine Toleration Act granted religious tolerance to nonconformist Trinitarian Protestants, such as Baptists and Congregationalists.
In practice
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware and New Jersey then refusing to create an established colonial church.
Where people slip
The tolerance did not extend to Catholics, who were routinely excluded from political power. Read the exclusion as carefully as the grant.
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