What is the enlightenment in the 13 colonies?

American Enlightenment. The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual ferment in the thirteen American colonies in the period 1714–1818, which led to the American Revolution, and the creation of the American Republic.

It led to the American Revolution and the creation of the American Republic. The American colonies were the first real experiment for many Enlightened ideas and the Enlightenment further refined its viewpoint by looking to the American way of living.