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Which statement correctly analyzes how Enlightenment thinker Thomas Hobbes’s ideas impacted the American Revolution?(1 point)

Thomas Hobbes’s ideas on liberty, equality, and fraternity became the rallying cry of the American Revolution.

Thomas Hobbes rewrote the founding document of the revolution to include women, emphasizing equality.

Colonists felt that their agreement with the king had been broken when he violated their rights.

Colonists revolted when their rights to life, liberty, and property were ignored by the king.

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"Colonists felt that their agreement with the king had been broken when he violated their rights."

Explanation: Enlightenment social-contract ideas (originally developed by thinkers like Hobbes and refined by Locke) gave colonists the framework to argue the king had broken the political agreement with them. (In practice the Revolution drew more directly on Locke’s arguments about natural rights and the right to revolt.)