Social classes are defined as hierarchical groups in which individuals are usually classified by income, occupation, wealth, educational work and sometimes for any social membership in a group.
During early American history there were many social class barriers, which unfortunately were very strong. Racial segregation in public and private schools was strongly enforced. Also, there were other ways to separate and classify people based most of the time on prejudice.
The new people coming to the new continent had the vision that across the ocean in the new land , everyone was equal and hard working, There was not a need to establish a system of social classes, which was one of the main reasons to live Europe in the first place, with all those social classifications. Answer B is the correct choice.
Unfortunately, this was not a reality in itself because those wealthy plantation owners with all their slaves, wanted very much to continue with the same European and English structure, to separate themselves from those who has not attained the same wealth and status as they had.