<span>Toward mid-century the country experienced its first major religious revival. The Great Awakening swept the English-speaking world, as religious energy vibrated between England, Wales, Scotland and the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. In America, the Awakening signaled the advent of an encompassing evangelicalism--the belief that the essence of religious experience was the "new birth," inspired by the preaching of the Word. It invigorated even as it divided churches. The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust--Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists--became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the nineteenth century. Opponents of the Awakening or those split by it--Anglicans, Quakers, and Congregationalists--were left behind.</span>
The Spaniards' policies became more humane to reduce conflict with Native Americans.As more settlements were established, more people moved to the region from Spain.The mixing of the Spanish and the natives formed a new blended culture.Hundreds of millions of people in South and North America still speak the Spanish language.Latin America is largely Roman Catholic.The culture and traditions of Spain influence the southwestern United States
they started trying to get their voices hread in 1929
The colonists criticized the Stamp Acts as "taxation without representation", because the colonists did not have consent over this form of taxation imposed on them. It was a decision made in the British Parliament without anyone representing the colonies when this decision was upheld.
