Which of the following does NOT characterize the American economy in the 1840s and 1850s?
A. Agriculture remained largely unaffected by technology, and thus diminished in importance as a component of the market economy.
B. The maturing factory system employed a growing industrial workforce, increasingly foreign-born.
C. Transportation improvements on land and water, especially the rise of the railroad, transformed the American economy.
D. Water power was increasingly being replaced by steam power.
Answer: A
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