The Great Awakening Dbq

When the colonist first came, they were mainly individual colonies with much diversity. The Great Awakening played a major role in the colonies uniting and seeing themselves as the Americans people.
The evidence of The Great Awakening was a major cause is that it spread throughout all of the colonies. The awakening didn’t only remained in Massachusetts but “swept through the colonies like a fire through prairie grass” (90). This marked the first time that the colonies were sharing a common idea through one person, a pastor named Jonathan Edwards. From Edward’s concept of righteousness and free will, another person named George Whitefield helped to spread the belief even more effectively through his amazing speech-giving skills (90). Although

Edwards’ and Whitefield’s preachings differed little with style, it was found under one idea. The Great Awakening was mainly a religious movement. Not just any religious movement, the Great Awakening converted many colonists to do good deeds (91), meaning that the colonies were uniting themselves under one common idea.
The Great Awakening was not only a major religious revival but also a crucial movement that united the colonists, visualizing themselves as a single American people. It was started in America, by an American person, and for the American people, “united by a common history and shared experiences” (91).