Immigration + The Great Awakening

With the Great Awakening as well as the mass European immigration, change was due in the American Colonies. The Great Awakening, teaching people to follow God in their own way, had many followers. Whitefield, the spark of the movement, allowed all to come to his sermons. This meant that many people from different religions would come and learn about how this man follows religion; gaining more strength the colonies began to mix into this melting pot we have today, teaching each other their own beliefs about religion, which in these day was closely tied to politics. While the New World was becoming more popular and advertised, immigrants were not as much from England as they used to be. The growing population was running out of space in the small colonies forcing the immigrants to mingle, which would force them to interact. With rules based mostly to one group of people, the new immigrants did not have much say. This caused problems because they often had no choice of their future being bossed around by the government. Combined with the Great Awakening the two simultaneously forced a democratic government in the colonies of America.