By the end of the 1800's jobs employed ____________ between the ages of 10 and 16?
Who owned much of the Western land near prime transportation routes?
What fraction of the soldier's out West deserted?
Child Labor was the scourge and economic engine of the time.
I guess: the railroads? they were granted huge blocks of land on contiguous, alternating sides of the tracks. For having built the railroad.
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It was not uncommon in the period of 1870 to 1890 to have thirty percent desertion per year in the Western areas.