In the early 1700s, spiritual revivalism spread rapidly through the colonies. This led the colonists to change their beliefs about religion. The Great Awakening was the level at which revivalism spread among the colonists. Even with this, there was still religious revivalism in the colonies. One of the main reasons for the Great Awakening was that not much time had passed before the revolution. The great awakening is reason to believe in William G. Mcloughlin's opinion and this proves that there was a cause behind the American Revolution. Even with this, there were still religious topics. “No one doubts that Americans were fundamentally a very religious people.” This is how William G. McLoughlin, begins his argument by saying that America fundamentally wanted to be a nation of Christians, McLoughlin also believes that a religious movement like the Great Awakening could not avoid having presuppositions that concern the right and wrong ways in where power and authority can be used in a certain way. As he begins to delve into his argument, he says that after understanding the anthropological definition of religion, it will become much easier to understand why the Great Awakening was so important and why it had such an impact on the American Revolution. For example, he describes some things such as the fact that town meetings had fractious issues and had often become part of issues that had to be resolved within the country or city, because the local judicial and political systems could not. This could have or perhaps led to some corruption due to the English not helping to solve the problems of the English colonists and led to the English proving that they were not capable of running a place like their own colony on their own. Later in his argument, McLoughlin writes: "As the (Great Awakening) opinion spread after 1742 throughout the colonies, many came to believe that Americans could not effectively carry out this mission as long as they were tied to a corrupt monarch oppressive and tyrannical". and Parliament in England "The general effect of this Great Awakening had the result that the colonies were able to develop a new type of neocolonial unity. This may also have been part of the resistance to laws and the like if the English. Finally, McLoughlin states that the revolution in one sense can be described as the political revitalization of a people whose religious regeneration began in the Great Awakening..