<span>The president tripled the U.S. defense budget, dispatched four divisions to Europe, and authorized the rearming of Germany
Led a United Nation action against the North, known as the Korean War.</span>
First, because interest groups have stronger and more realistic opinions about public policies (advantageous or not). Second, they are reference of economic, political and religious positions that also involve or interfere in numerous public policies. And third, interest groups are able to pressure congressmen (legislators) on some issues considered as urgent by them.
<em>All interest groups share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes.</em>
The first answer is right
The Puritans were protestants that were trying to reform the Protestant religion in England. They were trying to kick out the Catholic influence from the England. So they practically had their own new movement, Puritanism, that was know for it's intensity for the religious experience that it fostered. So all in all, the Puritans were Anglicans.
