During the 1840s and 1850s, American industry
A) manufactured machine tools better than those in European factories
B) developed high-grade woolens superior to those of the English
C) moved close to the cotton supplies of the Southeast
D) relied on European inventors for most technological improvements
Ans: A) manufactured machine tools better than those in European factories
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