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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes one effect of Enlightenment on America?

  • American thinkers agreed with John Locke's idea that political authority was divinely ordained.
  • Cotton Mather and the Boston physician Nicholas Boyleston fought against smallpox inoculation.
  • Some ministers combined Lockean political principles with Calvinist theology in order to attack the role of bishops and vest power in the laity.
  • European Enlightenment ideas had little impact on Americans until 1750. 

ANSWER: Some ministers combined Lockean political principles with Calvinist theology in order to attack the role of bishops and vest power in the laity. 
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