Why Does the United States Have a Two-Party System

question 68

Multiple Choice

Why does the United States have a two-party system?

• A) The Framers wanted competition between political parties.
• B) The Framers wanted to avoid the mistakes of Europe.
• C) It was a compromise between a unitary system's efficiency and a multiparty system's diversity.
• D) It developed in the struggle between slave owners and abolitionists.
• E) It developed in the struggle between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.

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