The "Broadcloth" mob was so called because
a) broadcloth was used to make women's dresses.
b) broadcloth was used to make the cheap clothes worn by the unruly mob.
c) of the fashionable broadcloth coats worn by many of the well-to-do who filled the
ranks of the mob.
d) of the broadcloth signs held by many members of the mob to protest the anti-
slavery meeting.
e) broadcloth was made using slave labor.
c
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