Great Awakening + Immigration on Democracy

In the British Colonies, immigration was of a much larger impact on the future-United States’ step towards democracy than was the Great Awakening. Firstly, immigration provided for the basis of the British colonies, especially considering that it was unsettled by Europeans before the 1600s. Also, immigration created a melting pot of nationalities that created confrontation and argumentation, part of the many keys to democratic life and society. Furthermore, the same melting pot of peoples created a growing crave for representative governments, so as to allow everybody to have their fair say in political and economic decisions of a region. The Great Awakening, may have lowered religious boundaries between churches and it could be debated that it led to more religious tolerance, and even further, the national separation of church and state, but it is not completely correct to say this, because many of the colonies were already very religiously tolerant, such as Pennsylvania and Rhode Island especially, but also New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Delaware, Maryland, and even the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. Only Connecticut and Massachusetts were truly completely intolerant to any other religion, because they saw other religions as threats to their own strict beliefs. That is why immigration was of greater pull toward democracy than was the Great Awakening.