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Standard 5-3.3

5-3.3 - Summarize the significance of large-scale immigration to America, including the countries from which the people came, the opportunities and resistance they faced when they arrived, and the cultural and economic contributions they made to the United States.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Eddie Norton, A Sweeper In the Saxon Mill | History of SC Slide Collection

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Eddie Norton, A Sweeper In the Saxon Mill | History of SC Slide Collection

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Eddie Norton, a sweeper in the Saxon Mill, Spartanburg, was photographed by the child labor reformer Lewis Hine on May 17, 1912, for the U.S. Child Labor Commission. Courtesy of the National Archives...

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Child Labor in the Carolinas

Employers need employees or workers. During the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States, many new jobs were created. Many of the workers who filled these new jobs were children. The problem...