Answer: Education, Building roads, collecting taxes, establishing courts etc.
Johannes Gutenburg invented the printing press during the renaissance. <span>The </span>printing press<span> was significant</span><span> because it made the mass production of </span>printed<span> materials possible, and lead to much wider dissemination of knowledge and literacy throughout the socioeconomic classes. </span>
Art, especially in the Renaissance was viewed as a new and up coming industry where art could be sold and being an artist was a real profession
Douglas applied popular sovereignty to Kansas in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which passed Congress in 1854. The Act had two unexpected results. By dropping the Missouri Compromise of 1820 (which said slavery would never be allowed in Kansas), it was a major boost for the expansion of slavery.
After the Civil War the government was more weary of states rights. This made them more the federal government have more power over the states to prevent something like the Civil War from happening again.
