Why Were Many Americans Drawn to the Socialist Party in the Election

Why were many Americans drawn to the Socialist Party in the election of 1912?

A) Its presidential candidate, Eugene Debs, was a southerner who could appeal to both blacks and whites.
B) A very large minority of Americans were willing to abolish the capitalist system altogether.
C) Americans looked with jealousy at the equality and prosperity that reigned in social democracies like Britain and Germany.
D) Eugene Debs had been a popular movie star and entertainer before he ran on the Socialist Party ticket.
E) The party's proposal to nationalize railroads and banks, and to provide unemployment relief, expressed popular Progressive thought.