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The most important factor behind the phenomenal American economic growth that occurred between 1840 and 1860 was
manufacturing advancements. an increase in agricultural productivity
an increase in agricultural productivity.
an adequate supply of laborers.
a constant influx of immigrants.
Question 2
1 / 1 point
In contrast to the Germans, Irish immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s often
worked as skilled artisans in the northeastern U.S. cities. entered at the bottom rung of the free-labor ladder as wage laborers or domestic servants.
were the most sought-after immigrant group because they got along well with the predominantly Protestant population in the Northeast.
lived up