The majority of workers at the Lowell textile mills, when they first opened in 1821, were

a. Irish immigrants
b. free African Americans
c. daughters of New England farmers
d. veterans of the War of 1812
e. French-Canadian immigrants


Ans: c. daughters of New England farmers

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