Market Revolution: Industrialization

AP US History· difficulty 4/5

The Lowell System employed

A
$Children under the age of ten working in textile mills and machine shops$
B
$Young, single women in factory work, with strict supervision and boarding houses$
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C
$Recently arrived Irish and German immigrant men in skilled craft trades$
D
$Enslaved African American laborers leased from southern plantations$

Explanation

Many "Lowell girls" later supported labor reforms; the model declined as immigrant labor became cheaper.

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