One of the important distinctions between eighteenth-century English and American social structure was that
A. while England had a large lower class, there were no poor people in America.
B. while England had a large lower class, England's more industrialized economy created more opportunities for upward mobility than did agrarian America.
C. while England's aristocrats claimed titles and legal privileges by hereditary right, only a few American elites inherited titles and political power.
D. while less than one-third of England's inhabitants belonged to the "middling sort," three-quarters of white Americans could be described as "middle class."
D. while less than one-third of England's inhabitants belonged to the "middling sort," three-quarters of white Americans could be described as "middle class."
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