The Women Who Worked in the New Mills in Lowell

The women who worked in the new mills in Lowell and Waltham

A) comprised 30 percent of the workers in textile mills by 1830.
B) saw themselves as part of a permanent working class.
C) tended to marry later in life to men who were less affluent.
D) regarded the opportunity to work as a chance to improve their lives.
E) considered factory work a stepping stone to careers and lifelong independence.