Answer:
It depends on what you have been taught, but I would personally say negative because of the diseases that destroyed Native Americans and the rise of slavery.
On the flip side, if you're thinking of positive, it did help exchange new ideas and goods (the Columbian Exchange) between the worlds. It also allowed a safe haven for those persecuted (like the Protestants) and allowed countries to dump their inmates onto the new land.
Find gold, have freedom to worship as they pleased, and simply to have a better life.
Most likely the colonists' response to th Stamp Act seeing that they refused to buy many goods from Britain following the Stamp Act.
Hindrances to answered prayer include:
1.refusal to hear God's law
2.unconfessed sin
3.doubting
4.praying to be seen of men