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Child Labor In The 1800s

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History of Child labor in the United States.
Child labor has existed for hundreds of years in the U.S.Like, in 1810 two million school age children working 50 to 70 hours a week with a wage of forty five cents to one dollar and ten cents. That cause a series of law made in 1800s which made the workday shorter and improved conditions for the children. But two of those laws were very important on was that, in 1836 when the first child labor law came into act, the law required under children under 15 to go to school for at least three months a year. The other important law came up 1842 a law that limited the work day for children to ten hours a day came into act, making life a little easier for the children. As years passed more laws passed and
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