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Unlike the Great Awakening, which stressed religious emotion, the Enlightenment emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge. Mr. Franklin was a amous American Enlightenment igure. !his intellectual and scienti ic re"olution appealed mostl# to wealth#, educated men. $ut it, too, had ar%reaching e ects on the colonies. !he Enlightenment began in Asia, as scientists disco"ered natural laws, go"erning the uni"erse. &saac ''''''', or e(ample, e(plained the law o gra"it#. )ther Enlightenment people applied the idea o natural%laws to human societies. !he English ''''''''' *ohn +ocke, argued that people ha"e natural rights. !hese ideas are to +i e, libert#, and propert#, which became the ounding ideas or the American -e"olution and the amous American document, the Common .ense *ohn +ocke claimed that people create go"ernments to protect their natural rights. & a go"ernment ails in this dut#, people ha"e the right to change it. +ocke challenged the belie that kings had a God% gi"en right to rule. Enlightenment ideas o natural rights and go"ernment b# agreement in luenced leaders across Europe and the colonies. !he colonists began to wonder whether the $ritish go"ernment guarantee their rights and reedoms. )ne o the most important English rights was the right to elect representati"es to go"ernment. Go"ernment, England/s lawmaking bod#, was the colonist/s model or representati"e go"ernment. 0arliament was made up o two houses. !he king and '''1ueen''''were too ar awa# to manage e"er# detail o the colonies. +ike the citizens o England, English colonists in America wanted to ha"e a sa# in the laws go"erning ''''''''''. E"entuall#, the# would rebel and orm a new go"ernment.
THE ENLIGHTENMENT & THE COLONIES CORRECT CLOZE TEST ANSWERS Unlike the Great Awakening, which stressed religious emotion, the Enlightenment emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge. $en2amin Franklin was a amous American Enlightenment igure. !his intellectual and scienti ic mo"ement appealed mostl# to wealth#, educated men. $ut it, too, had ar%reaching e ects on the colonies. !he Enlightenment began in Europe, as scientists disco"ered natural laws, go"erning the uni"erse. &saac 3ewton, or e(ample, e(plained the law o gra"it#. )ther Enlightenment thinkers applied the idea o natural%laws to human societies. !he English philosopher *ohn +ocke, argued that people ha"e natural rights. !hese rights are to +i e, libert#, and propert#, which became the ounding ideas or the American -e"olution and the amous American document, the 4eclaration o &ndependence. *ohn +ocke claimed that people create go"ernments to protect their natural rights. & a go"ernment ails in this dut#, people ha"e the right to change it. +ocke challenged the belie that kings had a God% gi"en right to rule. Enlightenment ideas o natural rights and go"ernment b# agreement in luenced leaders across Europe and the colonies. !he colonists began to wonder whether the $ritish go"ernment protected their rights and reedoms. )ne o the most important English rights was the right to elect representati"es to go"ernment. 0arliament, England/s lawmaking bod#, was the colonists model or representati"e go"ernment. 0arliament was made up o two houses. !he king and 0arliament were too ar awa# to manage e"er# detail o the colonies. +ike the citizens o England, English colonists in America wanted to ha"e a sa# in the laws go"erning them. E"entuall#, the# would rebel and orm a new go"ernment.