All the following statements about the mill workers of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s are true EXCEPT:

They were strictly supervised at all times.

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They worked more than 70 hours in a normal week.

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Most of them came from wealthy families.

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They wrote and published their own magazine.

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Nearly all of them were female

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The correct option is C Most of them came from wealthy families.
All the following statements about the mill workers of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s are true except that most of them came from wealthy families. The mill workers in Lowell in the 1840s did publish a magazine, they were strictly supervised, they were almost all female, and they did work more than 70 hours a week. However, most of them were from poor families.

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