The Great Awakening of the settlers had three determining effects:
(1) The ministers established their own schools and churches in all the colonies, which was to cause a new education proper to the colonies, where ideas of freedom could prosper far from the old English Protestant schools.
(2) New religious beliefs were much more democratic than British English, and with its message of equality and demortia, the Great Awakening churches would soon become places of free thought and democracy in the colonies.
(3) The Great Awakening of the settlers was the first event considered "national", in which all 13 Colonies could participate, giving them an identity and a union that had not previously been presented. Altogether, these three points would be precursors of an own identity and in turn of the search of the freedom.