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Well, other factors means things other then the Enlightenment that might have had a great effect on the colonies. Like, if there was a sudden epidemic or the flu that affected the development (just an example...) that would be an "other factor", or if there was a war.

I'll be on the look out for some resources for the Enlightenment and the colonies, and will tell if I find one.

And now I have to ask you to please post what you already have. Nothing major, just key points that you've got already. Can't let these things slide or Shadow might be after you.

pianogirl2422 wrote: Can't let these things slide or Shadow might be after you.

Faster than a drug-addict on crack too.

And in my opinion, other factors could be ANYTHING at all going on at the time. That's my take on the question.

Ok...how did the enlightenment influence salutary neglect?

Education I can kind of see, but to me that is a stretch cause what I'm drawing is the whole "the educated members of the masses are the most likely to foment rebellion" (Les Miserables kind of thing, also see: Russian Revolution).

For Economy what my teacher used to always say was "People didn't want freedom from the British because they took away their rights, they could have cared less as long as they were alive. What made them angry, was that the British were taking their money."

And philosphers...yeah...i'm not following that one.

Yeah, I didn't really find anything online that could be easily brought back to the colonies (although, I might could, but I'm still on summer vacation). BUT, here's why my AP review book says about the Enlightenment:

REA APUSH Review Book wrote: As the 18th century progressed Americans came to be more or less influenced by European ways of thought, culture, and society. Some Americans embraced he European intellectual movement known as the “Enlightenment.”

The key concept of the Enlightenment was rationalism-the belief that human reason was adequate to solve all of mankind’s problems and, correspondingly, much less faith was needed in the central role of God as an active force in the universe.

A major English political philosopher of the Enlightenment was John Locke. Writing partially to justify England’s 1688 Glorious Revolution, he strove to find in the social and political world the sort of natural laws Isaac Newton had recently discovered in the physical realm. He held that such natural laws included the rights of life, liberty, and property; that to secure these rights people submit to governments; and that governments which abuse these rights may justly be overthrown. His writings were enormously influential in America, though usually indirectly, by way of early 18th-century English political philosophers. Americans tended to equate Locke’s law of nature with the universal law of God.

The most notable Enlightenment man in America was Benjamin Franklin. While Franklin never denied the existence of god, he focused his attention on human reason and what it could accomplish.

So it was probably the start of the whole bill of rights thing. Other factors you might want to include are the economy as Shadow said, and land.

Land was a big issue for the colonists. More people were immigrating and the colonies were getting crowded. The king kept promising the colonists more land, but with each new aquisition, the colonists were denied. I believe it was the ohio river valley that was important, but I can't find it at the moment. This denial might not have been so bad if the king weren't forcing colonists to fight in the French and Indian War and then giving them nothing but higher taxes for it.

There was the Great Awakening, but nothing major really came of that that I can see.

And I think that's all I got about this.