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The Great Awakening lead to a shared awareness of being “American” as it was an experience all colonists shared and thus unified the colonists. It lead to encouragement of national and individual rights which impacted the notion to split from Great Britain

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The Great Awakening allowed all colonists to realize if they had the choice and ability to choose their religion to follow without having it determined by someone else that they should be able to choose their leader to. This led to a increase demand for democracy.

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The Navigation Act, a result of British mercantile policies, angered the colonists as it required that all trade between England and the colonies had to be carried on English ships, which in turn caused a large reduction of trade in the colonies and a loss of money. Britain also limited the colonies’ money they could earn.

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The 13 colonies all had a bicameral legislature consisting of a lower house -the assembly- made of eligible voters and the higher house -the council- made of legislatures appointed by the crown.

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These seeds of future independence would lead to the American Revolution.  Democratic ideals, such as those begun in the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, would come to influence their future government.  When the colonies eventually came together to form the United States they would retain some influences from their English ancestry, but also use these democratic ideas to form a whole new type of government.

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Ideas of John Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and more made the American colonists realize their rights and power as a people. They started to ponder about the way Great Britain was treating them.

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The colonies themselves were named after places in England. (For example, Boston, Cambridge, Exeter, Portsmouth)

Still spoke English.

Governed by British laws.  The colonies had to obey the British Parliament.

Their governors and part of their local  legislative bodies were elected by the British.

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This proclamation occurred because the American colonists wanted to settle on land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi river. However, this land was not occupied by the British. Rather, this land was inhabited by an Indian tribe. Then, the British made a proclamation line which the colonists could inhabit to the west of.  This made the colonies angry and since the British country was in debt, they decided to make the colonists move to different land to prevent any future costs, infringing on the colonies’ right of movement.

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Growing Democracy in British North America 

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Growing Democracy in British North America 

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Eight out of the 13 colonies being New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, their governors were appointed by the king. MaryLand, Pennsylvania, and Delaware’s governors were appointed by the proprietors. Connecticut and Rhode Island were the only two colonies that elected the governor through elegible voters.