American Puritanism was a movement among Christians from England who settled in North America in the 1600s. American Puritans believed that being pious (i.e., moral, good) was more important than following the Catholic rituals that were still part of the Church of England, so they attempted to purge Catholic influences from the way they practiced Christianity.
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Chapter 1: Elijah Pierson
...from a family of colonists (who arrived in the Americas in 1666) known for spreading American Puritanism in the northeastern United States.
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