Child Labor In U.S. History

     In the late 1700's and early 1800's there was machines made to replace the hand labor for the making of the manufactured items. Factories began to expand everywhere, the first place was in England then in the United States. The owners of the factories found a new way of labor to run the factories machines.The owners was going to use children. To work the power-driven machines did not need adult strength and children would be cheaply than adults. By the mid-1800's the child labor was a big problem.

  Children was always working, especially in farming. The factory work was hard. A child that worked a factory job might have worked 12 to 18 hours for six days a week. They would work all those days and hours just to earn a dollar. Most children began working before the age of 7 years old, working on the machines in spinning mills or the hauling heavy loads. The factories were damp, dark, and dirty. There was some children worked underground in coal mines. The working children didn't have anytime for school or to play, and they didn't get any rest. Most of the children became every ill.Child Labor was killing the children.