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.