What was integral to the spread of Enlightenment from Europe to America?

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anonymous · Answer

the high literacy rates in New England colonies that enabled the settlers to read books and newspapers
the development of plantations that encouraged more Europeans to migrate to America for gainful employment
the arrival of the English preacher, George Whitefield who toured American colonies giving sermons
the correspondence between Britain’s Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society
the mechanistic view of the universe as postulated by the British scientist, Isaac Newton