Quiz: Child Labor

The number one cause of child labor is:

• No Education
• Factory Work
• Poverty
• Sweatshops

What were photographs such as this one taken by Lewis Hine primarily intended to accomplish?

• Encourage leaders to make segregation in schools illegal

• Document labor conditions during an economic crisis

• Depict the evils of capitalism in communist propaganda

• Focus attention on the need for child labor reforms

True or False? Child labor only happened in the US during the early 1900s

• True

• False

True or False? Child laborers made the same wages as adults

• True

• False

True or False? The Keating Owen Act was supported by everyone

• True

• False

True or False? The Keating Owen Act was ruled unconstitutional because the law tried to regulate child labor

• True

• False

True or False? The Keating Owen Act was ruled unconstitutional because the law tried to regulate interstate commerce

• True

• False

True or False? Child laborers often were injured on the job

• True

• False

Who was Lewis Hine?

• a photojournalist who worked for child labor reforms

• a photojournalist who worked for unions

• a photojournalist who opposed the Keating Owen Act

• a photojournalist who supported big businesses

True or False? Child laborers still had to go to school

• True

• False