The American Revolution very successfully represented the ideals of the enlightenment. The enlightenment was all about reform which was what the American revolution was. People were tired of being socially, economically and politically shunned and they realized, just like in the enlivenment realized that the way things were happening had to change so they changed it. One of the main ideas of the enlightenment was not to have a monarchial government which was one of …showed first 75 words of 251 total…

…showed last 75 words of 251 total…as taking advantage of them and they could no longer survive this way. Even though enlightenment is constantly happening and the human race is always going though change and advancing, and no one can see the side affects. The people who are in charge often do not like change because they do not care about the society as a whole they only care about themselves and the richer get richer while the poor get poorer.