During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Individualism

During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism

A) came under attack from Henry David Thoreau.
B) was defined in a way that distinguished it completely from the idea of privacy.
C) hampered efforts to spread democracy because it reduced interest in suffrage.
D) was rooted in the idea of self-sufficiency.
E) was a subject on which all transcendentalists agreed.