Extent of Unification between New England Colonies

By the Eve of the Revolution the New England Colonies had created a fairly strong sense of unity between each other. This had happened, primarily, because of three main events. The first event to cause the Colonists to start to come together was the Molasses Act England had issued them. The Triangle Trade was used to further the economic situations in the colonies. When England passed the Molasses Act, it made the Triangle Trade no longer available to the New England Colonies, thus hurting them economically. Because of this misfortune, the colonists had to come together in order to get pass the Molasses Act and begin smuggling, as their way to rebel against England. The Great Awakening had also brought the colonies closer together. It was the one time in all of history that had united America together on a religious level. Because of the large amount of converts, everyone at this point had felt a religious presence and come together to worship. Therefore, America had also come together when they became overwhelmed with religion. Finally, the freedom of Press was another major turning point in unifying the colonies. Because of freedom of press the colonists were now able to bring up opinions and share important news over a wide amount of area. Without this people were not able to share events and such easily, but with it people were able to have opinions about different things and about things that were not directly affecting them. But they knew what was going with their other colonists. Overall, by the Eve of the Revolution the colonists had become quite unified, at least compared to how they were when they first became grounded.