Trivia: What intellectual movement is associated with the American Revolution?
Modernism
Humanism
Enlightenment
Romanticism
The correct answer is Enlightenment
So why is this answer correct? : An intellectual movement spanning both the 17th and 18th centuries, the Enlightenment provided the philosophical underpinnings for the American colonies’ call to revolution. Founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin embodied the ideals of the Enlightenment’s religious rationalism, which is found throughout the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.