While Hamilton Promoted Factories as the Key to the Nation's

question 103

Multiple Choice

While Hamilton promoted factories as the key to the nation's economic future, Jefferson emphasized farming because

• A) America had so much land that it seemed to offer opportunities for social mobility to a wide segment of the population.
• B) Jefferson saw factories as celebrating subservience and stifling the virtue that farm life cultivated.
• C) Jefferson believed that farming would promote emigration and provide employment and food for the new nation.
• D) Jefferson believed most of the goods that factories produced could be imported; therefore, America didn't need to rely on its own industrialization.
• E) None of these choices