What statement best describes the enlightment?
a) the enlightment was a movement that grew out of unrest in the colonies
b) the enlightment was a european movement that the colonists rejected
c) the enlightment was a movement that thomas jefferson started
d) the enlightment was in european movement that spread to the colonies

D is right.

Explanation: Enlightenment is European (100%) and it was spread to the colonies (here it is meant north-American colonies because its influence in South America was much weaker). It is important that Enlightenment has various different aspects ...1) political (introduction of new and secular political institutions), 2) philosophical (rationalism, mechanicism, materialism), 3) growth of press, 4) scientific. Enlightenment had different expression in different countries.

the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.