The Enlightenment influenced the leaders of the American Revolution by bringing in the ideas of freedom of speech, equality, freedom of press, and religious tolerance,...

... resulting in the conflict between Great Britain's and its thirteen colonies.

1000

Declaration of Independence

1776

John Locke, one of the many philosophers who influenced the leaders of the American Revolution, believed in the three natural rights. When Thomas Jefferson was drafting the Declaration of Independence, he used John Locke's idea of three natural rights. Jefferson was deeply influenced and included life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness in his declaration.