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Was the Great Awakening a Key to the American Revolution
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Was the Great Awakening a Key to the American Revolution? ...Yes The Great Awakening was a major influence on what caused and led up to the American Revolution. The colonies' newly -formed democratic views and religious mind set were the two main factors of the Great Awakening and the colonies' unity to start the American Revolution. The Great Awakening prepared colonists for what was to come forty years later. The Great Awakening (1735 - 1765) formed a new government for the colonists in America and beliefs of "natural rights" conquered the minds of a large percentage of the population. Britain began to set taxes on imports of goods and all paper products, and the colonists had the idea that taxing the colonies for Britain's own profit was unjust. The new government provided a unity or "togetherness" that William G. Mcloughlin speaks of in "Enthusiasm for Liberty". The new government the colonies had formed...
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