The middle class that emerged during the Industrial Revolution consisted mainly of a mix of government officials and skilled workers, Option B is correct.
The Industrial Revolution fostered a middle class of people who were neither abundantly wealthy, nor unskilled laborers in a factory barely getting by. They included merchants and mid-level bureaucrats, as well as a few skilled laborers whose jobs had not been replaced by industrial machines.
Generally speaking, the poor in the 1960s were "<span>disproportionately African American and suffered greater rates of disease and malnutrition," although there were plenty of poor whites as well. </span>
