Primary Sources: Interview with former child laborer in the Industrial Revolution
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Read the passage Primary Sources: Interview with former child laborer in the Industrial Revolution. Then answer the questions below.
Read the passage Primary Sources: Interview with former child laborer in the Industrial Revolution. Then answer the questions below.
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What makes this primary source useful to historians?
What makes this primary source useful to historians?
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Which statements about the limitations of this primary source document are true? Select two correct answers.
Which statements about the limitations of this primary source document are true? Select two correct answers.
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Drag each question into the correct box based on the type of hardship child laborers experienced.
Drag each question into the correct box based on the type of hardship child laborers experienced.
- "Do you think that if the overlooker were naturally a humane person it would still be found necessary for him to beat the children, in order to keep up their attention and vigilance at the termination of those extraordinary days of labour?"
- "When you got home at night after this labour, did you feel much fatigued?"
- "Had you any time to be with your parents, and to receive instruction from them?"
- Physical hardship
- Emotional hardship