Question

Question: Which statement best identifies the impact of the Enlightenment on the American Revolution? (1 point)

Responses:

Ideas such as democracy, natural rights, and fair government inspired colonists to revolt against the British.

The social contract belief that the government should have total power motivated the colonists to rebel.

Thomas Jefferson’s idea that governments should not violate the natural rights of people was used to criticize the British.

Rousseau’s creation of social contract theory influenced American ideas on government.

Answer 1

Ideas such as democracy, natural rights, and fair government inspired colonists to revolt against the British.

Explanation: Enlightenment thinkers (especially Locke) promoted natural rights, consent of the governed, and limited government; those ideas motivated the colonists and appear in revolutionary documents like the Declaration of Independence.