- American thinkers agreed with John Locke's idea that political authority was divinely ordained.
- Cotton Mather and the Boston physician Nicholas Boyleston fought against smallpox inoculation.
- Some ministers combined Lockean political principles with Calvinist theology in order to attack the role of bishops and vest power in the laity.
- European Enlightenment ideas had little impact on Americans until 1750.
ANSWER: Some ministers combined Lockean political principles with Calvinist theology in order to attack the role of bishops and vest power in the laity.
