American Enlightenment

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cultural movement historical period intellectual movement

The American Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement in 18th-century America that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping the ideals of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
American Enlightenment canonical	6
American Enlightenment (intellectual movement)	1
American Revolution was deeply rooted in ideas and ideology	1
Republic of Letters and American Enlightenment	1

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement ⓘ historical period ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ
associatedInstitution	American Philosophical Society ⓘ University of Pennsylvania ⓘ surface form: College of Philadelphia Harvard University ⓘ surface form: Harvard College Yale University ⓘ surface form: Yale College
coreValue	education ⓘ individual rights ⓘ liberty ⓘ popular sovereignty ⓘ progress ⓘ reason ⓘ religious toleration ⓘ science ⓘ separation of church and state ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	late 18th century ⓘ
field	education ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ natural science ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	circulation of pamphlets and newspapers ⓘ critique of hereditary privilege ⓘ critique of monarchy ⓘ emphasis on empirical science ⓘ expansion of higher education ⓘ growth of learned societies ⓘ promotion of republican government ⓘ use of print culture ⓘ
historicalContext	American Revolutionary era ⓘ colonial America ⓘ
influenced	American Revolutionary era ⓘ surface form: American Revolution American educational institutions ⓘ American political thought ⓘ American religious thought ⓘ Bill of Rights ⓘ American Declaration of Independence ⓘ surface form: Declaration of Independence United States Constitution ⓘ
influencedBy	British Enlightenment ⓘ Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: European Enlightenment French Enlightenment ⓘ Isaac Newton ⓘ John Locke ⓘ Montesquieu ⓘ Scottish Enlightenment ⓘ Voltaire ⓘ natural law theory ⓘ republicanism ⓘ
mainRegion	Thirteen Colonies ⓘ
notableFigure	Alexander Hamilton ⓘ Benjamin Franklin ⓘ James Madison ⓘ John Adams ⓘ John Witherspoon ⓘ Noah Webster ⓘ Thomas Jefferson ⓘ Thomas Paine ⓘ
relatedConcept	Deism ⓘ Great Awakening ⓘ liberalism in the United States ⓘ republicanism in the United States ⓘ
startTime	early 18th century ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Age of Enlightenment → hasPart → American Enlightenment ⓘ

Republic of Letters → hasKeyConcept → American Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Republic of Letters and American Enlightenment

Benjamin Franklin → movement → American Enlightenment ⓘ

Scottish Enlightenment → influenced → American Enlightenment ⓘ

Princeton, New Jersey Colony → associatedWithEvent → American Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Enlightenment (intellectual movement)

British Enlightenment → influenced → American Enlightenment ⓘ

Benjamin Franklin’s pen name "Poor Richard" → associatedWith → American Enlightenment ⓘ

subject surface form: Poor Richard

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution → argues → American Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Revolution was deeply rooted in ideas and ideology

The American Crisis → movement → American Enlightenment ⓘ