Which of the following statements generally describes the view of middle-class reformers on social conditions during the Gilded Age?

a. They were concerned with the stark economic and social differences between the rich and the poor.

b. They largely disavowed their past calls for equality as a result of the steady economic growth that had vastly improved conditions for the lower classes.

c. They sided with Social Darwinists and promoted the idea that the government should not interfere in social affairs.

d. Although they lamented social problems at meetings, they failed to propose any actual plans for change.

e. They sided with the working poor and formed a new Labor Party that came to seriously rival the two major parties.