I really need help before 11:50 The Influence of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening
During the 1700s, ideas based on the Enlightenment circulated
among well-educated American colonists. The Enlightenment was a
European intellectual movement. Enlightenment philosophers
believed that all problems could be solved by human reason.
Frenchman Baron de Montesquieu and Englishman John Locke
were two thinkers who applied reason to government and politics.
Enlightenment philosophy affected religious beliefs in the colonies.
Colonists who admired these ideas wanted a religion that was less
emotional and more rational. At the same time, attendance at church
services was in decline.
During the 1740s, concern about these trends led to a religious
movement called the Great Awakening.
Explain how the philosophies of the enlightenment affected American colonists