Did the industrial age and the rise in the numbers of factories help or hurt the expansion of the middle class in the United States? Explain.(1 point)

A. It helped the expansion of the middle class because factories offered citizens with little-to-no education a stable job with good wages and benefits.

B. It hurt the expansion of the middle class because the factory system replaced the domesticity of goods, in which individual workers would use personal tools or simple machinery to fabricate goods in their own homes. These craftsmen were forced to take lower-paying factory jobs.

C. It hurt the expansion of the middle class because factories forced citizens with little-to-no education into low-paying jobs with no benefits.

D. It helped the expansion of the middle class because poor factory working conditions forced the government to enact laws that eliminated many predatory business practices.