Explain how changing religious ideals, Enlightenment beliefs, and republican thought began to shape the politics, culture, and society of the late colonial periods, and how these factors increased colonial resistance to British rule.

Both the Enlightenment and the Great awakening caused the colonists to alter their views about government, the role of government, as well as society at large which ultimately and collectively helped to motivate the colonists to revolt against England.

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Ever since the Enlightenment period (1680-1815) began, ideas such as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, reason, and separation of church and state began to emerge over Europe and eventually spread to the Americas. The colonists progressively thought that the British were usurping their "natural human rights" (John Locke) by stationing British soldiers in the colonists private properties and heavily taxing the colonies without giving them any representation. These actions consequently lead to the colonists rebelling, petitioning, and later on declaring their independence from the British government though the Declaration of Independence. In the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers wrote the reasons to why the King no longer has the right to rule the colonists in the 'list of grievances' and therefore declared their independence using many Enlightenment ideas.

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