Conditions for Factory Workers
What was the average workday for a adult in the 1840s?
About 11.4 hours
What mostly stopped in Northern United States in the 1830s?
Slavery mostly stopped.
Which member of a family would work at the factories?
The men
What did immigrants add to America.
About what year did people begin to resist immigration?
1830
Where did the children work?
The coal mines
How were African Americans treated in the North?
There was a lot of prejudice and discrimination.
Who worked at home and raised the kids?
The women, or mothers.
Which two countries had their citizens immigrate to the United States?
Germany and Ireland.
Who was accused for stealing jobs?
Immigrants
In summer and winter, conditions were either extremely hot or extremely cold.
Who was one person who worked to create churches for the colored
Richard Allen or Absalom Jones.
About how much money were females paid at workplaces in the 1830s?
About half of what the men were paid.
How many died from the food shortage in Ireland? (The Great Potato Famine)
More than a million.
Who started the political party called "Know-Nothings"?
Nativists
Why might workers of the north be poor?
They worked without pay
What financial situation were most black Americans in at the time?
Most lived in poverty.
What was a major hardship for women who wanted to work?
Men wanted to keep women out of work.
What plant disease destroyed most of the Irish food supply in the 1840s?
The Potato Blight.
Who added more culture to the United States?
The immigrants
How long did it take for child labor laws to be added?
Many years
Who was the first black man to be license in law?
Macon B. Allen
Who founded the Labor Reform Organization?
Sarah Bagley.
What were the main causes of immigration from Germany?
Work, opportunity, and to escape political problems.
Immigrants from Germany wanted what?
Work and opportunity