Question

During the late 18o0's, what

changed with the factory
workforce that resulted in many
Women going to work as teachers?
A. Children were leaving school to work in the
factories.
B. Immnigrants replaced children in factories,
and children went to school.
C. Men were taking the place of women in
factories.
D. Women left the factories.

Answer 1

B.

Heavy immigration from Ireland, England and other European countries brought men (willing to work long hours at low wages, needing work, children needing educations.

Earlier in the century cheaper labor in the form of children and women displaced men from routine factory jobs.