Child labor in Victorian times

We call Victorian times the period

• 
• the period from 1837 to 1901

• the period from 1837 to 1876

• the period from1819 to 1901

During this period children

• had to work at school

• didn't have to work

• could work

• had to work because industry needed a lot of labor

Sschool attendance

• was compulsory until 1880

• was optional

• 
• was forbidden

After 1880

• children couldn't go to school

• could leave school at the age of 9

• had to go to school

• could leave school at the age of 10

Children

• 
• could carry coal in the factories

• had to carry coal in coal mines

• had to pick fruit in the coal mines

In the factories many accidents happened because

• 
• children had to clean machines

• children weren't allowed to sit

• children had to carry stones

during this period children also had to

• work long hours at school

• work long hours at home

• 
• stay long hours at school

In the fields

• they had to carry coal

• 
• they had to scare cows

• they had to pick fruit , vegetables and to scare crows

compulsory means

• obligatory

• voluntary

• forbidden

• optional

• easy

a crow in French is

• un oiseau

• un moineau

• une vache

• un corbeau