History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0760 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Child Labour
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The idea
The National Child Labor Committee, founded in nineteen oh four, won the Keating-Owen Act of nineteen sixteen, barring interstate trade in goods made by children.
In practice
Lewis Hine's photographs of child workers, taken over a decade-long campaign.
Where people slip
The Supreme Court later struck the act down. The Fair Labor Standards Act of unit eleven achieved its aim in nineteen thirty-eight.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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