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.
Soon after the Pilgrims settled in the Northeast, Puritans from England chartered the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Led by Governor John Winthrop, the Puritans had fled religious persecution in England and wanted a chance to establish a strict, religious government.he following year, another group of Puritans left Massachusetts because they thought it wasn't being strict enough! Their colony, New Haven, and some other settlements were soon absorbed into Connecticut. The last of the New England colonies to be formed was New Hampshire.