The focus on selling indulgences became so important because when the Renaissance period came, the church was losing its power, so people were able to freely buy things they wanted, even if they didn't needed them, and to not fear about being charged, beaten up, or even end up dead just because the church didn't thought its appropriate. Also, a very big factor was the fact that the people in this period, in general, had more money than the people in the Middle Ages, so the increased financial power enabled them to buy things that they found interesting but were not necessities.
<span>Brief Translation:
Many leaders have tried, and will try in a world of sin and sadness. No-one pretends that voting is perfect. Yes, it has been said that voting is the worst type of government except all those other types that have been tried.
Basically he's saying that democracy (voting) is better than other ways to elect a government.</span>
The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
The traffic increased as a result of the Louisiana Purchase
