INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT
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Question
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All are true regarding child labor during the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT:
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Children worked in coal mines and textile factories.
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Factory owners paid children extremely low wages, or about 10% of adult males’ wages.
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Children worked on farms or in the home.
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Poor families could not afford enough food to keep children healthy.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -It is estimated that fifty percent of children who lived during the Industrial Revolution were forced to work instead of getting an education. They often had lifelong consequences, including serious health and mental health issues which prevented them from living their lives to the fullest as adults.
Detailed explanation-2: -Children performed all sorts of jobs including working on machines in factories, selling newspapers on street corners, breaking up coal at the coal mines, and as chimney sweeps. Sometimes children were preferred to adults because they were small and could easily fit between machines and into small spaces.
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