One of the Important Distinctions Between Eighteenth-Century English and American

Multiple Choice

One of the important distinctions between eighteenth-century English and American social structure was that

A) while England had a large lower class, there were no poor people in America.
B) while England had a large lower class, England's more industrialized economy created more opportunities for upward mobility than did agrarian America.
C) while England's aristocrats claimed titles and legal privileges by hereditary right, only a few American elites inherited titles and political power.
D) while less than one-third of England's inhabitants belonged to the "middling sort," three-quarters of
white Americans could be described as "middle class."