wealth of the Italian city-state played an important role in the Renaissance. This wealth allowed prominent families to support artists, scientists, and philosophers spurring on new ideas and artistic movements
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment abolished the poll tax and was later expanded to prohibit literacy tests as well.
It was a four-way race election. Woodrow Wilson (democratic), Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), William Howard Taft (Republican), and Eugene V. Debs (Socialist) ran against each other.