The correct answer is D) it reduced the importance of religion over how people thought about society.
Humanism impacted political thinking during the Renaissance in that it reduced the importance of religion over how people thought about society.
By the 14th century in Italy, writers and scholars supported the ideas about humans as smart beings capable of thinking on their own, not following the religious dogma imposed through the dark ages of the Middle Age. Humanism tried to educated people in culture and arts, trying to continue with the legacy of great ancient cultures such as the Greeks and the Romans.
Lincoln Steffens and Claude Wetmore wrote on one of the greatest urban scandals of the post-Civil War: corruption.
The article Tweed Days in St. Louis, printed in McClure's magazine on a 1902 issue, was written by Steffens and Wetmore along with other writers and was called the first muckraking article.
In it, Major Ziegenhein and the city council were denounced for corruption, claiming they were stealing the public budget and getting bribes to approve regulations.
