Child Labor Vocabulary Review

1. Child Labor Vocabulary Review

2. REGULATE To control or adjust to a specific standard or rule

3. TENEMENT What is a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section if a large city?

4. malnourish Suffering from lack of nutrition

5. Progressive Era A period of social activism and political reform in the U.S. Between the 1880s and about 1920

6. Charles Dickens Helped publicize the evils of child labor with his novel Oliver Twist

7. National Child Labor Committee Organized in 1904 in the U.S. by socially concerned citizens and politicians to regulate child labor laws.

8. factory Any place that produces a uniform product (one place might produce parts for an airplane while another might produce towels)

9. Lewis Hine He was a photographer in the early 1900s and he used his photographs to help change the U.S. child labor laws

10. Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 This banned the sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14