How the Renaissance had changed was because of the Jesuits had put them selves into education and scholarship as an center of the intellectual and spiritual activity, which made them rapidly became in touch with higher educators and advisers. Because of that they considered themselves as an educators as well.
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This “act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified.
Loaf is a verb when used in that context, it means to idle one's time away, typically by aimless wandering or loitering.
Utopianism was created by Sir Thomas More. Utopianism is defined as "a community or society possessing highly desirable or near perfect qualities." However, this can be used to describe a society that is aiming for this or fictional societies. The word can be used across many different academic spheres, such as economics, ecology, politics, history, science, technology,religion and feminism.