Puritan is commonly applied to a reform movement that aim to purify the practices and structure of the Church of England. They believe that civil authorities should enforce religion. King James 1 had series of issues with the Puritans regarding to religion and its affilated problems.
Due to this issue, most Puritians left England and moved to America inorder to escape the religious persecution they are facing in the hand of King James 1.
The CCC and WPA got people from a wide range of experiences together for the first time and broke apart some of the arbitrary lines that divided Americans. It allowed people from cities and the country and of different religions to live and work together and to see that there is more that unites us than divides us.