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What was the land that George Calvert asked Charles I used for?1) farming 2) the land was used to build ports for ships 3)a refuge for people of the Catholic faith 4)for trees that would help the ship building industry

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The land that George Calvert asked Charles I used for: a refuge for people of the Catholic faith.

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Although George Calvert asked the land for tobacco farming, for a time it was a haven for Catholics escaping from persecution in England. Thousands of British Catholics fled to Maryland and established some of oldest Catholic communities in the colony.
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