The concept Mardi Gras is inherently rooted in the Catholic traditions of Southern America. The Puritans were mostly situated in the North East and while it was a branch of Christianity like Catholisiscm, the two have distinctively different methods of practice.
Puritans believed in a much stricter code of conduct. The act of celebration and indulgence, which Mardi Gras had come to epitomize, would have been considered excessive to say the least.
Puritans would have also probably found fault in the fact that Mardi Gras customarily marks the start of Lent and so the idea of a celebration to commence a willing sacrifice to God would have probably been considered blasphemous.
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