Answer:
A. It inspired colonists to elect their own government with leaders of their choice.
Explanation:
Since the 1760's the public opinion of the thirteen colonies was becoming aware of their identity and unity of interests in a growing opposition against the British government, which did not heed the calls for moderation; until the dynamics of mutual challenges led to an armed conflict, the War of Independence (1775-1783).
The American revolution meant for that young society a series of great intellectual and social changes, such as the new republican ideals that, debated by the "founding fathers", were assimilated by the population. Civil and political rights were recognized as they were conceived by revolutionaries (influenced by Rousseau's contractualism), as natural and inalienable rights.
The new concepts of democracy and republicanism, based on the writings of Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Voltaire, produced an agitation of the traditional social hierarchy and created a new public ethic that shaped the essence of American social and political values.
