What was the importance of "culture" for American Victorians?
A) It helped to separate the lower classes from the respectable middle classes.
B) It was agency vehicle for social uplift that could help those Americans aspiring to middle-class status.
C) It was a code word for decadence, they believed, because art museums were repositories of immoral works.
D) It was a derogatory term generally used to describe the lower classes' cheap copies of famous paintings.
E) It represented European life and was therefore considered un-American.
B
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