SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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people have natural rights
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Slavery was justified
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Witches were real
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people do not have natural rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -Enlightenment thinkers wanted to improve human conditions on earth rather than concern themselves with religion and the afterlife. These thinkers valued reason, science, religious tolerance, and what they called “natural rights”-life, liberty, and property.
Detailed explanation-2: -Summary: Enlightenment ideals of rationalism and intellectual and religious freedom pervaded the American colonial religious landscape, and these values were instrumental in the American Revolution and the creation of a nation without an established religion.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Enlightenment is influential in contemporary society, as its ideals of freedom and equality are reflected in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Enlightenment was pioneered by a desire to promote rationality and reason.