<span>The Enlightenment was important America because it provided the philosophical basis of the American Revolution. The Revolution was more than just a protest against English authority; as it turned out, the American Revolution provided a blueprint for the organization of a democratic society. And while imperfectly done, for it did not address the terrible problem of slavery, the American Revolution was an enlightened concept of government whose most profound documents may have been the American Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution. To feel the full impact of the Enlightenment on America one needs only to look at the first inaugural address of Thomas Jefferson, who, along with Benjamin Franklin, is considered to be the American most touched by the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Jefferson wrote: If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
While the locus of the Enlightenment thinking is generally considered to have been the salons in Paris and Berlin, the practical application of those ideas was carried out most vividly in the American colonies. (http://www.academicamerican.com/colonial/topics/enlighten.htm)
The Great Awakening
A complete dissolving of the theocracy occurred. The establishment in Virginia and North Carolina began to fall apart. Ministers could no longer control the direction of religious life. It had been democratized and made accessible by people.
One of the major results of the Great Awakening was to unify 4/5ths of Americans in a common understanding of the Christian faith and life. Americans--North and South--shared a common evangelical view of life.
(http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/four.html)
In other words, the great awakening began to break down barriers in the colonies that allowed them to have greater inner-colony relations.</span>
Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s.
They restricted public use of "white only" Resturants, water fountains, theatres and bathrooms. Many more.
Answer:
<h3>If only one person has the authority to rule, then no one else, even members of government, may have authority, so divine right undermines civil society.</h3><h3 />
Explanation:
- The statement that best explains an enlightenment position on the divine right to rule is "If only one person has the authority to rule, then no one else, even members of government, may have authority, so divine right undermines civil society."
- If we look from an enlightenment position, authority and power should be derived from reason as it does not believe in divine right theory of power and legitimacy.
- It believes that rights and liberties of the people are infringed upon and other forms of rational democratic processes are undermined when only one person takes control over the whole power.
Answer:
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Explanation:
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I believe the correct answer would be the first one, but I'm not 100% on this. Hope I was able to help though!
-TTL
