What Was a Result of the Increase in Jobs in Mills

question 4

Multiple Choice

What was a result of the increase in jobs in mills and factories?

• A) The North and South maintained the same political alliances as one another.
• B) Americans left towns and cities for the countryside in droves.
• C) Social values managed to stay consistent with those before the rise of an industrial economy.
• D) An urban middle class developed.
• E) The cotton economy suffered and was outsourced mainly to Europe.

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The sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings, transmitted from one generation to another.

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