☀️ D2 - GILDED AGE LABOR: CHILD LABOR (MUST-DO)

List some of the jobs that children would have performed in the early 1900s.

Injuries and death in the workplace were very common among children in the early 1900s.

Children often lied about their ages in order to get jobs.

Explain why you think Lewis Hines' work was much more influential that the newspaper who were printing stories similar to his.

The Gilded Age was the first time in history that children were used as workers.

Because children were smaller than adults, they could perform many functions that adults could not.

Some of the child laborers in the U.S. in the Gilded Age were immigrants from other countries.

At what point in our history did reformers actually begin to fix the problem of child labor?

The main reason why people finally agreed to end child labor was that they wanted to make sure that there would be enough jobs for adults.