The correct answer is B) young native-born women.
Initially, the textile mills in the northeast tended to hire young native-born women.
Industrialization in the Northeast of the United States had one of its best examples in the textile mills of New England. Rich traders and business built textile mills along the rivers of the region. Water power allowed new systems of manufacturing machines that efficient the production of textiles. The owners of these mills started to hire young women that used to work in farms in the rural areas and paid them decent wages.
