1. How did Thomas Dublin challenge the romanticized view of the Lowell system?
2. Who was Samuel Slater and what technique did he use to influence the workforce of the 1800s?
3. Why did some Americans resent Slater's changes to the workforce? (child labor)
4. Summarize Slater's family system.
5. How did factory villages reflect the needs of New England families?
6. Who called for an end to child labor? Why did child labor ultimately end?
7. By the 1840s, to what type of workers did employers turn? How did this impact the housing and living conditions close to the factories?
8. Over all, how did factory life change by the 1850s? What were the effects?
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