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 upper classes.
b. They weren't comfortable with the idea that upper class people were "slumming" and taking on the trappings of 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 establish a minimum dress code for all colonial classes.
A
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