Question

For which group’s benefit was the colony of Maryland established?

A. atheists

B. Catholics

C. Jews

D. Protestants

Answer 1

Although Maryland was established to promote religious freedom and the colony really wasn't dominated by a particular religious group, it was mostly established to help Catholics escape persecution.  

Answer 2

Answer:

D. Protestants

Explanation:

Native American Algonquians lived in the region for about ten thousand years before the arrival of the first Europeans. The first of them was the Spaniard Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, then the governor of the Spanish colony of Florida. He had explored the Chesapeake Bay, now part of Maryland, in 1572. The British merchant William Claiborne, of Virginia, founded the first trading post in 1631.

That same year, George Calvert, a British nobleman, asked the British Crown for the property and government right of the Chesapeake Bay region. Calvert was Catholic and wanted a colony in America where the British of that religion, discriminated against in their country (of Protestant majority), could practice their cult.His request was accepted by King Charles I of England in 1632.