What motivated the rapid mechanization of industry and agriculture in nineteenth-century North America?
a. a shortage of cheap labor to staff factories and farms
b. the desire to build a technologically advanced army
c. competition from European goods entering America
d. the need to offload unskilled members of the workforce
Answer: a. a shortage of cheap labor to staff factories and farms
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