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.
The Reformation in England and Puritanism. In the early 16th century, England was a second-rate power torn apart of internal disunity. Religion in England was reformed not by determined spiritual idealists like Luther and Calvin, but by a determined monarch.