What statement best describes the enlightment?
a) the enlightment was a movement that grew out of unrest in the colonies
b) the enlightment was a european movement that the colonists rejected
c) the enlightment was a movement that thomas jefferson started
d) the enlightment was in european movement that spread to the colonies

D is right.

Explanation: Enlightenment is European (100%) and it was spread to the colonies (here it is meant north-American colonies because its influence in South America was much weaker). It is important that Enlightenment has various different aspects ...1) political (introduction of new and secular political institutions), 2) philosophical (rationalism, mechanicism, materialism), 3) growth of press, 4) scientific. Enlightenment had different expression in different countries.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts