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How did the Enlightenment influence the development of the American Revolution?

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The enlightenment rejected traditional social, religious, and political values.

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The Enlightenment was the revolution. The Enlightenment taught people how to have rational thought with affairs such as government. It was the Enlightenment that provided the thoughts for the Declaration of Independence. The Founding Fathers realized that they wanted to be free and had the right to be free. They were enlightened and wanted to be self-governed by their own government, not by the Monarchy.

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