>Cromwell and the extreme Protestant Taliban were gone;
They weren't totally gone, many moved west to pollute a different continent.
They weren't totally gone, many moved west to pollute a different continent.
I can't find any hard numbers on emigration to America because of this, but it definitely restarted a wave of Puritan emigration that had mostly stopped when Cromwell took power.
New England, with its Puritan settlement, had supported the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.
The two groups repeated their conflict two hundred years later in American Civil war