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Dive into the vocabulary surrounding child labor during the Progressive Era, including the efforts to regulate and reform labor laws. Learn about key figures like Charles Dickens and Lewis Hine, and the impact of the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916.
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REGULATE To control or adjust to a specific standard or rule
TENEMENT What is a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section if a large city?
malnourish Suffering from lack of nutrition
Progressive Era A period of social activism and political reform in the U.S. Between the 1880s and about 1920
Charles Dickens Helped publicize the evils of child labor with his novel Oliver Twist
National Child Labor Committee Organized in 1904 in the U.S. by socially concerned citizens and politicians to regulate child labor laws.
factory Any place that produces a uniform product (one place might produce parts for an airplane while another might produce towels)
Lewis Hine He was a photographer in the early 1900s and he used his photographs to help change the U.S. child labor laws
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 This banned the sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14
