"There are several circumstances in the situation, employments, and duties of women, in America, which require a peculiar mode of education. I. The early marriages of our women, by contracting the time allowed for education, renders it necessary to contract its plan, and to confine it chiefly to the more useful branches of literature.
II. The state of property, in America, renders it necessary for the greatest part of our citizens to employ themselves, in different occupations, for the advancement of their fortunes. This cannot be done without the assistance of the female members of the community. They ,just be the stewards, and guardians of their husbands' property. That education, therefore, will be most proper for our women which teaches them to discharge the duties of those offices with the most success and reputation.
III. [A] principal share of the instruction of children naturally devolves upon the women. It becomes us therefore to prepare them by a suitable education, for the discharge of this most important duty of mothers.
IV. The equal share that every citizen has in the liberty, and the possible share he may have in the government, of our country, make it neceary that our ladies should be qualified to a certain degree by a pecuiar and suitable education, to concur in instructing their songs in the principles of liberty and government."--Benjamin Rush, from "Thoughts upon Female Education," 1787.

The ideas put forth in the excerpt best exemplify the intellectual influence of which of the following?
A. Transcendentalism
B. The Glorious Revolution
C. Enlightenment
D. The First Great Awakening.

I believe the answer is A. If it's not, what is it & why?
AP United States History