Evolution of Democracy Regarding Quests of Jonathan Edwards and the combined significance of Immigration

Jonathan Edwards, a colonial congregational preacher and theologian of the 17th century, provided pre-Revolutionary America with a radically democratic social and political ideology enveloping colony life and that evangelical religion embodied and inspired a thrust toward American nationalism: although only certain peoples in the colonies are given these ideologies. The thirteen colonies were believed by some historians that there was still a system of social class: for example, the blacks had the lowest opportunity of them all, slaves, and nothing more to the colonists, had harsh lives in serving another country. Immigration shaped the life of democracy in the nation of America; as various immigrant groups mingled and intermarried, they laid the foundations for a new multicultural American national identity that had to be spread into a theory of "somewhat fairness", which led to an evolution of a democratic nation. Colonial Calvinism and Puritanism was the basis for the American Great Awakening and that in turn lay at the basis of the American Revolution. Thus, it sees a major impact as the Great Awakening provided the radical American nationalism that prompted the Revolution. Awakening preachers sought to review God's covenant with America and to repudiate the materialistic, acquisitive, corrupt world of an affluent colonial society. The source of this corruption lay in England, and a severance of the ties with the mother country would result in a rededication of America to the making of God's Kingdom. Although 18th century America was a shining land of equality and opportunity, except slavery, no titled nobility dominated society from on high, and no pauperized underclass threatened it. This marks a beginning of the evolution of democracy.