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Read the excerpt from Loom and Spindle.
But in a short time the prejudice against factory labor
wore away, and the Lowell mills became filled with
blooming and energetic New England women.... They
soon began to associate with those who formed the
community in which they had come to live, and were
invited to their houses. They went to the same church,
and sometimes married into some of the best families.
Or if they returned to their secluded homes again,
instead of being looked down upon as "factory girls" by
the squire's or the lawyer's family, they were more often
welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new
fashions, new books, and new ideas with them.
TIME REMAINING
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What inference can be drawn about the time period of
the excerpt?
The changing workforce transformed society's rules.
Factories improved local economies with new
products.
O Women with factory experience found other jobs
easily.
Married women preferred factory work to
homemaking.