What Are The Ideals Of The Enlightenment Change 18th Century America

The sixteenth century America is primarily dominated by the Puritan idealism, but slowly through the year’s things are changing both in the religion and culture. In human nature the constant need for change is captivating, a change towards something new and different than the current. The events of the growing and changing eighteenth century America reflect just that. Ideas of the Enlightenment take deep root in the transformation of ideas about human’s relationship to God and to nature. Therefore, a deeply religious society starts transforming into a more secular culture, but religion still has quite a large influence. There is a big emphasis placed on education, which is now readily available compared to previously when manly rich landowner’s children had the means to attend school and get education. In this newly emerging curious society effected by the Enlightenment dramatic political and literary changes start taking place, among other fluctuations.

The colonists were cut off from the main land, obviously not literary, but information traveled slower. News about the changes taking place in Europe made their way to America and this served as a catalyst to an already brewing set of ideas about separating from England. This idea was translated to the needs of the colonists to serve their needs to attain freedom. Originally, these were people leaving their homes and everything they behind, to embark on a journey across the world. At first homesick and trying to make the best of what they had to work with in the new land, now a strong emerging little nation finding its own identity, its own voice and ready to go to war to be recognized and to be heard. I only hope that most of us in here in North America realize how extremely lucky we are for what was handed to