During the late sixteen hundreds to the mid-seventeen hundreds, there was an intellectual movement called the Enlightenment. This movement was created in Europe, and later spread across seas to North America, by the major thinkers of the Enlightenment, the philosophes. The Enlightenment was also referred to as the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Reason. The Enlightenment had many significant changes on the society, mainly focused on individualism, reason and logic, skepticism, religious tolerance, and scientific thought. It produced numerous essays, books, scientific discoveries, inventions, laws, wars and revolutions. The Enlightenment’s view on individualism was that man has certain liberties and rights. “These rights were believed