Description
The English Reformation took place in the 16th century when the Church of England broke away from some doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church. The Church of England remained the established church but a number of nonconformist churches existed whose members suffered under the monarchy of James I and Archbishop Laud. It would be these people who would emigrate to Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims) and Massachusetts Bay Colony (Puritans) founding a uniquely American Protestantism.
