In the mid-19th century, the result of Americans moving from small towns to big cities, and small merchants replaced by large corporations, was the destruction of that has sustained the US economy up until that point.'

Before the invention of the loom in 1785, textile manufacturing was: a) regulated under the guild system. b) performed by children working in factories. c) produced in rural cottages under a putting-out system. d) conducted by british colonists overseas.