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The boycott would have cut off their transportation to and from work. As well as anywhere they could not get to on foot. Leading to possible job losses and in turn losing the ability to pay for their homes and food.
The Medici family ruled the city of Florence throughout the Renaissance. They had a major influence on the growth of the Italian Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism. The Medici family were wool merchants and bankers. Both businesses were very profitable and the family became extremely wealthy.
The South was the most rural and agrarian area of the U.S.
