American Party, Know-Nothing Party-a former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics. Anti-Masonic Party-a former political party in the United States; founded in 1825 in opposition to Freemasonry in public affairs.
(One commented that Anglicanism was a crooked compromise betwixt two religions.) The Puritans desired a simpler Church ritual and doctrine more in line with Calvinism --a return to what they conceived as the pure form of the early Christian Church.One commented that Anglicanism was a crooked compromise betwixt two religions.) The Puritans desired a simpler Church ritual and doctrine more in line with Calvinism --a return to what they conceived as the pure form of the early Christian Church.
3. U.S. History. the principles and practices of the Congregationalist members of the religious movement who, having migrated to America in 1620, attempted to set up a theocratic state in which clergy had authority over both religious and civil life. â Puritan, n., adj.