The colonists creating their own identity seperate from brit

Religion didn’t play a big role in uniting the colonists against Britain; it instead played a big role in uniting the colonists with each other by giving them a common belief in God which everyone could relate to. It did this through the Great Awakening. This spread the word of God throughout the colonies and united people in the way of giving something to everybody that they could all relate to: a belief in

One way, economically, the colonists developed their own sense of identity and unity was through the hardships of the Navigation Acts. These Acts created many problems for all of the colonies. This united the colonists by creating a common problem which everybody could relate to. Therefore they all had a common goal and worked together to accomplish it. You can see how intense they were about joining up to battle against Britain by looking at the grotesque picture in Document A. In addition in 1774 Parliament passed a series of laws called the coercive acts. These were an attempt to isolate Boston from the rest of America, but instead other colonists united and sent supplies and food to Boston to help them out as seen in Document G. The onl

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