The Greatest Single Factor Helping to Spur the Amazing Industrialization

question 18

Multiple Choice

The greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post-Civil War years was

• A) agriculture.
• B) mining.
• C) the steel industry.
• D) the railroad network
• E) None of these choices are correct.

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