Stemming from the European Enlightenment came the American Enlightenment. “This as a movement to prioritize the human capacity for reason as the highest form of human attainment” (Schultz, K. 2014 p. 69.). The main idea of this is that each of the central thinkers such as John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Adam Smith suggested that progress was possible as people achieved more of their natural rights and people were invested in their own life and should have the ability to reject authority if certain rights were unavailable to them. The Enlightenment was known as a huge change in the way the people of the Western world saw themselves and the areas where they live. Colonist were unsure as to how the thought of “natural rights” would impact
