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    century, which led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States of America. The American Enlightenment was influenced by the 17th-...
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    The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the...
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  • Look up enlightenment, Enlightenment, enlighten, or enlightened in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to: Age of Enlightenment...
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  • underpinnings of Spanish American independence. Works by Enlightenment philosophers were owned and read in Spanish America, despite restrictions on the...
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    The Scottish Enlightenment (Scots: Scots Enlichtenment, Scottish Gaelic: Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland...
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    Revolution. The American Enlightenment was a critical precursor of the American Revolution. Chief among the ideas of the American Enlightenment were the concepts...
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    of the Scottish Enlightenment, as well as the American Enlightenment, while debating the very existence of the English Enlightenment. English historian...
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    The Patriots were inspired by English and American republican ideology that was part of the Age of Enlightenment, and rejected monarchy and aristocracy and...
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  • The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment (Spanish: Ilustración) came to Spain in the 18th century with the new Bourbon dynasty, following the death of the...
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  • The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (sometimes abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, reactionary...
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    Hamowy, Ronald. "Jefferson and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Critique of Garry Wills's Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence". William...
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    The Counter-Enlightenment refers to a loose collection of intellectual stances that arose during the European Enlightenment in opposition to its mainstream...
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    Politically, the country takes its values from the American Revolution and American Enlightenment, with an emphasis on liberty, individualism, and limited...
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    Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Valsania, Maurizio. The French Enlightenment in America: Essays on the Times of the...
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    Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?), often referred to simply as "What Is Enlightenment?", is a 1784 essay...
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    the Universe, contrary to deistic thought. He referred to God in American Enlightenment terms, including Providence, the Creator, or the Almighty, and the...
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    and the works of the Enlightenment. Emphasis was placed on both speech and debate; Madison was a leading member of the American Whig–Cliosophic Society...
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  • which challenged the ideas of the Enlightenment at the end of the early modern period. It was written by the American historian Darrin McMahon and published...
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    IV:557 Madison, James. "The Federalist No. 51". Ralston, Shane J. "American Enlightenment Thought". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved July 6...
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  • The Age of Enlightenment was a broad philosophical movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The traditional theological-political system...
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    multiply". In keeping with his Enlightenment thinking, President Jefferson adopted an assimilation policy toward American Indians known as his "civilization...
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    Alexander Hamilton (category People of the American Enlightenment)
    Darren (2005). Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0-8090-7784-7. Steward...
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    Benjamin Franklin (category People of the American Enlightenment)
    of African Americans into U.S. society. As a scientist, his studies of electricity made him a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history...
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     Venezuela Atlantic World Cartography of Latin America Castas Spanish Empire Spanish American Enlightenment Black legend (Spain) Hapsburg Spain List of largest...
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    The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment or the Birmingham Enlightenment, was a scientific, economic, political, cultural...
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    aristocracy in France. The Revolution was perceived as the incarnation of the Enlightenment Spirit against the "English tyranny." Ben Franklin traveled to France...
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  • the 17th century and during the Age of Enlightenment, especially in 18th-century England, France, and North America, various Western philosophers and theologians...
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    the American Revolution as part of a broader American Enlightenment, in which the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment began to influence American science...
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    American Constitution. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2013. Labunski, p. 259. Deloria, Vine Jr. (2000). "American Indians...
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     The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment. London, UK: Bloomsbury. "Yale Faculty Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Yale...
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