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Andrew Carnegie came to America from Scotland as a child of 12. Where did he begin work?
AAs a bobbin boy in a cotton factory
BAs a clerk in a shipping office
CAs a driver on a canal barge
DAs a miner in an iron quarry
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. As a bobbin boy in a cotton factory
1. 1. His first job is named directly: bobbin boy in a cotton factory.
2. 2. From there he moved to a telegraph office and then to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
3. 3. Only after those jobs did he begin the investments that ended in iron.
4. 4. The other options name work he is never said to have done.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section INDUSTRY GROWS BIGGER_
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