The aspects of European Enlightenment influenced the educated Americans during the eighteenth century. Enlightenment was a type of thought that emphasized science and reason over the aspects of religion. The Enlightenment thinkers basically applied careful investigations based on research and trials to the social and political aspects of life. European Enlightenment spread to America from across the Atlantic with goods and people. The thinkers of the Enlightenment ideas hoped that reason could govern human life instead of religious enthusiasm. Enlightenment thinkers often adopted new forms of religion that involved the use of scientific evidence to validate religious beliefs. Two examples of the religions adopted by the Enlightenment thinks