Why Did the Lowell Idyll Decline

question 37

Multiple Choice

Why did the Lowell idyll decline?

• A) The country experienced an economic depression and increased immigration.
• B) Many of the young women at Lowell got pregnant.
• C) The families of the mill girls demanded they return home to help on the farms.
• D) The young women workers proved too hard to control.

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