A Major Economic Consequence of the Transportation and Marketing Revolutions

question 77

Multiple Choice

A major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing revolutions was

• A) a lessening of the gap between great wealth and poverty.
• B) a stabilization of the work force in industrial cities.
• C) the declining significance of American agriculture.
• D) a steady improvement in average wages and standards of living.
• E) the growing realization of the rags-to-riches American dream.

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