List some of the jobs that children would have performed in the early 1900s.
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Parents often claimed that they needed children to work because they needed the _______ they brought in.
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The National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hines to travel around the country and _______ children in exploitative situations.
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Explain why you think Lewis Hines' work was much more influential that the newspaper who were printing stories similar to his.
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Many reformers were angered by the poor working conditions that children were subjected to and they also believed that children should be receiving an _______ instead of working.
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Injuries and death in the workplace were very common among children in the early 1900s.
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False
Children often lied about their ages in order to get jobs.
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False
The Gilded Age was the first time in history that children were used as workers.
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False
Because children were smaller than adults, they could perform many functions that adults could not.
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False
Some of the child laborers in the U.S. in the Gilded Age were immigrants from other countries.
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False
At what point in our history did reformers actually begin to fix the problem of child labor?
Reconstruction
Gilded Age
Civil War
Great Depression
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.