The Age of Enlightenment led to calls for revolution questioning old beliefs of authority questioning ethics, government, and even religion. I argue that the Enlightenment with new ideas about man, government, science and religion is what created a cascading effect of people's fixed mindsets from before and because of that change people began to challenge beliefs religious beliefs and the way monarchs governed their country. everyday life, ultimately leading to new discoveries in science, the universe, and the belief that freedom and democracy were God-given rights. Perhaps one of the factors that led to the call for revolution was when high-level men intellectuals began to question the sacred knowledge that was being passed down. Thomas Jefferson, who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, demonstrated some of the Enlightenment ideas such as law and order in the document. political thought. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” p. 777. Such words are chosen not only to declare independence from Great Britain, but also to declare independence for all individuals from the lawless grip of monarchical rule. As a result of America's independence it demonstrated to the world that a country can be created by individuals gifted with intellect and applying the principles of reason, similarly other nations soon followed the same example as America“I wish you to remember the Ladies and that you be more generous and favorable to them more than your ancestors” p. 781. Abigail Adams urges her husband John Adams to consider the ideas and needs of women in the Declaration of Independence, and not to follow the old ancestors' ideas of how women should be treated who were given no rights and were not considered equal to their male counterparts. There was a male dominance during the Enlightenment movement in Abigail Adams' letter to John Adams in which she wished for a social organization where women could have the same rights as men. Abigail Adams warns her husband John Adams: "If special care and attention is not given to women, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any law in which we have no voice or representation" pg. 781. Abigail Adams warns John Adams not to repress women and they can and will rebel when they have no representation in a new nation. Incidentally, ironically, this is the same reason why the Declaration of Independence was written without taxation without representation in Britain.