Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farm to work in textile mill towns in the early nineteenth century was:
A) to save their families from economic collapse.
B) to escape unhappy marriages.
C) to escape farm life and earn wages.
D) to find husbands.
Answer: C
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