How did specific ideas or events from the colonial experience and/or Enlightenment ideas shape the founding of the United States? In other words, how were the ideas in the Constitution, support for the Revolutionary war, or revolutionary ideas of liberty or freedom shaped by Indigenous perspectives, colonial settlement, Puritan ideals, slavery, etc? In order to fully address the prompt, you should consider at least one reading from 9/19 or before for the colonial experience, and one reading from 9/21 or “Common Sense” for the revolution. Do you see similar ideas or parallels between the two?
