It helped colonists decide to become revolutionists and fight the British. It was common sense that the British needed to be driven from America.
Answer: Reason
You can read about that on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
Or here on history.com: https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/enlightenment
<span>England spent a lot of money trying to protect the American colonies and decided that they would tax the colonies more in order to have the colonies pay for the military costs. The taxes forced upon the American colonies made them angry and eventually led to protests and a full out revolution that the colonies won and formed the United States of America
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