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Labor Reform

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When workers go out on strike, they are

Starting with the Reform Act of 1832, Parliament passed laws in the 1800s that gave voting rights to

This satirical lithograph, published by Currier and Ives in New York in 1869, comments on the feminist movement.

A satirical lithograph titled "The Age of Brass." It shows woman standing in line to vote for another woman. A sign next to the female candidate reads, "Vote for the celebrated man tamer." A woman is scolding her husband, who is holding a baby.

Which statement most likely represents the point of view of Currier and Ives?

Read this excerpt from a New York State commission investigating living and working conditions in tenement houses.

Another great evil of tenement house manufacturing was the fact that it made legally possible the work of little children in manufacturing pursuits at home, when the law rigidly excludes them from such occupations in the factories. Children as young as five, six, and seven years of age were found doing work. One little girl, aged 7, testified that she worked until eight o’clock in the evening.

What labor issue did the commission identify?

Which of the following best describes the impact of labor reform both in the United States and in Great Britain during the 1800s?

What did reformers in the early 1800s claim were problems with the British parliamentary system? Check all that apply.

This photograph, taken by Lewis Hine, shows textile mill workers.

Two boys stand on top of an industrial sewing machine, grabbing spools of thread from the top of the machine. The boy in the foreground is not wearing shoes and he is standing very close to stitching machines and a belt drive.

What were goals of Hine in publishing this photograph? Check all that apply.

The graph shows suffrage reform in the United Kingdom.

A bar graph titled Suffrage Reform in Great Britain, 1832 to 1918. The x axis shows the years 1832, 1884, 1918. The y axis shows the percentage of population with the right to vote, from 0 to 100. 1832, 7%; 1884, 28%; 1918, 72%.

Based on this graph, it is reasonable to assume that by 1930 the percentage of the population with the right to vote was

Factory owners took steps to prevent unions from forming because they