The Booms and Busts of the Economy in the Early

The booms and busts of the economy in the early decades of the 1800s caused many Americans to feel that

A) free trade was not a viable system.
B) the government should take control of major industries.
C) the system was unfairly slanted toward the already wealthy.
D) government should be more responsive to their needs.
E) they were just destined to be at the mercy of cyclical downturns that could not be averted.