Age of Industrialization
Before the Industrial Age, most people worked in this area.
What is agriculture/farms?
These engines powered trains, boats, and other factory machines.
What is a steam engine?
Children as young as this age would be hired to work in factories and mines.
What is 4-5 years old?
This job involved children placing coal into minecarts and pushing them to and from the exit.
What are putters?
This resource was needed to operate machines in all factories.
What is people?
The Industrial Revolution took place over these centuries.
What is the 18th-19th centuries?
These two resource were crucial to steam locomotives.
What is coal? What is water?
Children were only paid around this much an hour.
What is $0.60?
If you were injured or sick while working, this would happen to you.
What is get fired?
This process involved separating metal from ore to make improved metal.
What is smelting?
This country is where the Industrial Age began.
What is Britain?
This machine was able to spin fabrics and required constant workers to respool the thread.
What is a spinner?
Children would work this amount of hours per day.
What is 12-18 hours per day?
Factories and mines were dangerous to work in for these three reasons.
What is pollution? What is dangerous machines/no safety regulations? What is long hours with little breaks?
These organizations would take in children without parents, and often sell them to factories or mines to make some cash and keep their business alive.
What is an orphanage?
These two reasons were why the population increased during the Age of Industrialization.
What is medicine and better hygiene?
Coal was able to improve this type of metal, which could be used to make more durable machines.
What is iron?
Factory owners preferred hiring children for these four reasons.
What is children were less likely to strike? What is they could pay children less? What is children were easily replaceable? What is families relied on children making money?
In place of elevators, children would use this to enter and exit mines.
What is literally being tied with rope and chain?
These men would watch and ensure children did their jobs, or would be punished by them via a severe beating.
What is overseers?
These were the four positives of Industrialization.
What is more jobs? What is new technology? What is better metal? What is increased goods?
These were the three reasons why technology was dangerous for children.
What is machines are built for adults? What is no safety railings/precautions? What is lack of oversight/children working alone?
British Labor Reform laws involved these changes for all businesses that hired children.
What is a maximum of 12 hours of work per day? What is children must attend school at least two hours per day? What is inspectors being sent to factories/mines to ensure safety? What is a minimum wage?
Factories were built on land and along rivers for these two reasons.
What is factories needed space? What is factories needed water for steam engines?
This device used coal to generate heat and was important in the process of smelting.
What is a coal chute?