The toleration act of 1649 was passed in maryland because: english outnumbered the french protestants outnumbered catholics tobacco growers outnumbered cotton growers puritans outnumbered separatists landowners outnumbered those who did not own land

With England int the hands of Puritans and Protestants beginning to outnumber the Catholics in Maryland, the colony's legislature passed an Act of Toleration to ensure the religious liberty of Maryland's Catholics. Thus the answer would be Protestants outnumbered the Catholics, Choice B

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