What Encouraged the Building of Factories in Coastal Towns Such

question 5

Multiple Choice

What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?

• A) Such places generally had cheaper labor (usually consisting of African-Americans) than existed in the earlier, highly unionized factory towns such as Lowell and Pawtucket.
• B) Under Henry Clay's American System, federal and state governments subsidized factories in those locations.
• C) Steam power meant factories no longer had to be near waterfalls and rapids to generate the power.
• D) Factory owners were attracted by the highly skilled labor pool of German immigrants who settled in those areas.

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