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The Age of Enlightenment Features of the American Enlightenment The War for Independence Characteristics of the literature THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT The 18th-century American Enlightenment was a movement marked by an emphasis on rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. Enlightenment thinkers and writers were devoted to the ideals of justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of man. Deism(自然神论) :the belief, based solely on reason, in a God who created the universe and then