Why Did Massachusetts and Connecticut Feel the Need to Pass

question 21

Multiple Choice

Why did Massachusetts and Connecticut feel the need to pass sumptuary laws?

• A) They weren't comfortable with the idea that lower class people were taking on the trappings of the upper classes.
• B) They weren't comfortable with the idea that upper class people were "slumming" and taking on the trappings of the lower classes.
• C) They wanted to abolish all signs of the British social class system.
• D) They wanted to establish a minimum dress code for the lower classes.
• E) They wanted to limit finery for all colonial classes.

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