The American Enlightenment was a time of intellectual development in the thirteen colonies that led to the American Revolution and then the creation of the United States of America. During this time, scientific reasoning was applied to politics, religion, and science, and literature, arts, and music were restored. The American Enlightenment was influenced by the European Enlightenment, but it had its own thinkers. The men who had a major impact in the American Enlightenment included Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton. Along with these men, other leading thinkers included Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Clap, Ezra Stiles, Samuel Johnson, William Smith, George Mason, James Wilson, Ethan Allen, Jared Eliot, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Charles Peale, and Cadwallader Colden.
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