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The Great Awakening was the propagation of religious revivals throughout the American colonies in the 18th century, which caused American colonist to read more, thus becoming more educated, therefore changing the colonial culture, causing some people to abandon their old Anglican and Puritan churches, inspiring them to help others and stand up for their own beliefs, evolving into some sort of religious pluralism by propagating the idea of equality of all people before God, and thereby bringing colonists together so that America could become 1 nation, leading this to the Revolutionary War and indeed to Independence.
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