Lord Baltimore, from England, established Maryland as a haven for Catholics in the New World.
=He wanted to find a safe place for his fellow Catholics and he thought the colony would give him some fortune=
The Calvert family led by Cecil Calvert, an English Catholic nobleman, started a colony where Catholics would be safe. This colony was settled in Maryland and allowed the Catholics to practice their religion without fears.
Maryland
Massachusetts
The colony of Maryland was founded as a safe haven for English Catholics. The economy of Maryland focused on tobacco.
Maryland was settled by Catholics as it was the only colony at the time that would allow them to practice their faith without fear of persecution.
Maryland was established by Catholics for Catholics.
The Protestants that settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony were persecuted in England. (You can go to England and see the jails where many of them were imprisoned.) The King sold a corporation a piece of property. The corporation made a deal with the persecuted group. They would go to Massachusetts Bay and establish a Colony. After 7 years, they would own 1/2 the land and houses. (That was the standard deal in those days.) Thus, they got out of England and the company made money.
George Calvert not only wanted to settle somewhere where the climate was similar to England's, but he also wanted a place for people to be free of religious persecution and he also hoped that people would appreciate each other.
The established church of colonial Georgia was the Church of England, a protestant denomination. Back in England, Catholicism and Protestantism had a history of feuds, a nasty split that began when Martin Luther denounced the Catholic Church for the corruption that plagued it at the time. It makes sense, then, that a predominantly protestant colony like Georgia would discourage Catholics from living there, what with the history between the two religions still so fresh.
== == == == == == It was founded as a proprietary colony by William Penn, the Younger, who received its charter from Charles II, Restoration monarch of England. Penn was a Quaker, who hoped that the new colony would provide refuge for that persecuted radical religious sect. He also hoped to profit from the trade goods produced in the colony.