The Child Labor Timeline

By IChisom

  • People resolved that children shouldn't work from morning till night.

    Many people decided to give the children an opportunity to go to school

  • Children's work days were limited by federal laws.

    The law that limits the amount of hours of work days for children.

  • The NCLC got organized during the gilded age.

    These people tried to stop child labor from happening.

  • Most children began to make a strike against labor

    The laborers decided to get their freedom the hard way.

  • Lewis Hine decided to take photos of children that we're negatively impacted by labor.

    As a photographer, Lewis wanted the world to see what child labor really did to those kids.

  • In 1911 Lewis Hine took photos of children that were negatively effected by labor

    Lewis wanted the world to see what child labor really did to those innocent children

  • The triangle shirtwaist factory caught fire.

    This happened because the conditions that the children were working in was too dangerous

  • Lewis Hine photographed children that were physically damaged by labor.

    Lewis wanted the people of the gilded age to see the truth about child labor.

  • In 1916, the Keating Owens Act( KOA) was passed

    The government created an act that would save the lives of children in labor.

  • The Keating Owens Act was passed.

    The government finally made an act that would stop the abuse of children.

  • Child labor was decreased by more than 50% of its population of laborers

    Because of the laws and acts that were created, many of the children's lives were saved.

  • Child labor was decreased by more than 50%

    The population of laborers was finally decreased because of the acts and laws that the government created.

  • Child Labor is now abolished.

    Congress made an amendment that prohibited child labor.

  • State and federal laws were created

    The laws that were created will save those children's lives