How did the enlightenment ideas contribute to the Atlantic revolution?

-ideas from the enlightenment are shared across the ocean in pamphlets, books, and newspapers

-popular sovereignty

-ideas that human political and social arrangements could be improved through human action led to attacks on the conventional way of life

-new ideas of of liberty, equality, free trade, republicanism, religious tolerance, and human rationality also attacked conventionalism and helped ignite revolutions

-these ideas were often controversial .

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