The puritan values of the 17th century ("the Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed"), influenced Americans of the 19th century because in the 19th century, people valued the "Catholic" and churches even more which still do today.
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