sarah peachey's List: history 107

• The 1900 census revealed that approximately 2 million children were working in mills, mines, fields, factories, stores, and on city streets across the United States
• spark a national movement to end child labor in the United States.
• photographer and sent him across the country to photograph and report on child labor
• • relates to modern america industrialization, as industrialization slows down and the need for cheep labor slows child labor is less neccessary in the work force when in the great depression adults find it hard to find work
• the Keating-Owen bill of 1916,
• act banned
• employed children under the age of 14, from any mine that employed children under the age of 16,
• at night or for more than 8 hours during the day
• Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional
• Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938
• Supreme Court reversed its opinion in Hammer v. Dagenhart and, in U. S. v. Darby (1941), upheld the constitutionality of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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