The Great Awakening is credited with promoting a more democratic view of society while also encouraging a defiance to authority that ultimately led to

The Great Awakening would be the first of many symbolic events that would eventually to the Revolutionary War. It marked the emergence of Evangelical Christianism as the predominant movement within Protestant churches in the United States. this was the first step in marking a distance with a British institution. In this case, the church. In the forthcoming years, and with movements like the Enlightenment, people from the colonies would become highly skeptical about British rule in America.

Many historians claim that the Great Awakening influenced the Revolutionary War by encouraging the notions of nationalism and individual rights.