Three characteristics of the renaissance include:

Humanism, secular or scientific reasoning, and rediscovery of ancient classical values.

Explanation:

During the Renaissance, there was a change in perspective as to the nature of human beings and their powers to cement morality, knowledge, and society based on human and humane categories as the means to secure these and not divine intervention. This came to be known, broadly, as humanism. This tendency paved the way for the birth of scientific reasoning based on observation, evidence and provable facts. Finally, during this time, the West rediscovered and adopted the values and ideas that fueled ancient Greek and Roman societies and thought.    

harding's opponent in the 1920 election was ohio governor and newspaperman james m. cox, who had won the democratic nomination in a 44-ballot convention battle. harding rejected the progressive ideology of the wilson administration in favor of the laissez-faire approach of the mckinley administration.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts