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Why Did Massachusetts and Connecticut Feel the Need to Pass

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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 the upper classes.
B) They weren't comfortable with the idea that upper class people were "slumming" and taking on the trappings of the 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 limit finery for all colonial classes.

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