Which of the Following Is True of the Mugwumps

question 36

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of the Mugwumps?

• A) They believed that the federal government had an obligation to provide food and shelter for the disadvantaged within society.
• B) They believed that only righteous and educated men like themselves should govern.
• C) They were old-time, realistic, party-machine people.
• D) They were socialists in the Gilded Age.

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