Thomas Jefferson and other American leaders were influenced by the Enlightenment ideas. True
False

True

Explanation:

Below is just an example of how they were influenced

Many American Enlightenment thinkers, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, read and agreed with John Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration.  In it, Locke argued that civil government ought to protect liberty of conscience, the right to worship as one chooses (or not to worship at all), American thinkers inherited this principle of tolerant pluralism from their European Enlightenment predecessors.

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