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.
In the political realm, the requirement for becoming a freeman (meaning a stockholder in the company and a voter) was membership in the church, not land ownership as was the case in other colonies. The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay were Calvinists, but with their own points of emphasis.