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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois
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Voting rights, I would say.
The correct answer is B) Humanity progresses by building upon past knowledge.
<em>The quotation that connects to the Renaissance principle of humanism is humanity progresses by building upon past knowledge.</em>
The Italian Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), was a poet of Renaissance, considered the founder of humanists. In the Renaissance, the sonnets of Petrarch influenced other artists in Europe. His lyrical poetry works are one of the principal contributions.
Renaissance Humanism originated in the 14th-15th centuries. It places emphasis on the human realm.
A. To finance their growing empire.
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The British directly taxed the colonists in 1764 (post-French and Indian War) to pay off their debt, thus raising money for Britain.