A. - yes, you need to feed the empire!
B. - yes, you need to defend the empire!
C. - yes, you need to govern the empire!
D. - no, this would actually be detrimental to the empire, revolts would be rather bad than good for it.
Yes, they were made up of religiously diverse settlers. The settlers were mostly anglicans, Catholics, baptists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians.
Great Awakening was when people woke up to the need of religion in their lives, and it embraced the downtrodden such as farmers, the blacks and the slaves. On the other hand, Enlightenment remained in the hands of the intellectuals and the scientists.
