What best describes members of the new industrial entrepreneurial class in the mid nineteenth century?
a. They were the true initiators of the Industrial Revolution.
b. They were responsible for the predominance of giant corporate firms by 1850.
c. They came from the professional and middle classes.
d. They were often from the lower classes.
e. They were unable to amass great wealth.
c
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