Use the Information Below to Answer the Following Questions

Use the information below to answer the following questions.
Fact 6.2.1
China was the largest economy for centuries because everyone had the same type of economy-subsistence-and so the country the most people would be economically biggest.Then the Industrial Revolution sent the West on a more prosperous path.No world is returning to a common economy, this time technology- and information- based, so once again population triumphs.
-Consider Fact 6.2.1.Following the Industrial Revolution, the United States surpassed China to become the world's largest economy because

A) the U.S.population growth rate was much lower than China's population growth rate.
B) China began to import a significant portion of life- sustaining goods and services.
C) the benefits of the Industrial Revolution were greater in the United States than in China.
D) the U.S.population exceeded China's population.
E) the United States was a strong, united country following the Civil War and reconstruction.