Use the excerpt from the Maryland Toleration Act to answer the question.
Maryland resembled and differed from other English colonies in that it was established

A. to support corporate and royal economic interests like Virginia but focused more on commerce and trade than on farming.

B. for religious reasons like Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, but it provided more legal protections for diverse groups of believers.

C. as a haven for those under English laws like Massachusetts and Georgia but abandoned its founding principles to attract more colonists.

D. as a proprietary colony like Carolina and Pennsylvania but control shifted to Crown-appointed officials to reign in local democratic institutions.