I know I'm a little late (sorry!) but the answer is B.
Because it's always only been about these 2 parties. Republican and democrat. The third parties are just there... they never ever get enough votes to win, electoral or popular vote.
One of the primary concerns of the colonists during the French and Indian War was that Great Britain would end up taxing them in order to pay for it, which turned out to be true and helped lead to the Revolution.
Anybody except Adult White Males could not vote, it was called the
<span>Jacksonian democracy</span>
