Question

Which of the following correctly summarizes the problem the Keating-Owen Act seeks to solve?

Banning trade and commerce for companies who hired and overworked children in mills and quarries
Appeasement of the social reformers who took issue with children working for American companies
Enforcement of age and time limits on child workers to improve the health and welfare of children
Regulation of wages paid to at-risk children working very long hours in very poor working conditions

Answer 1

The Act: Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
AN ACT To prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, any article or commodity the product of any mine or quarry situated in the United States, in which within thirty days prior to the time of the removal of such product therefrom children under the age of sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work, or any article or commodity the product of any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment, situated in the United States, in which within thirty days prior to the removal of such product therefrom children under the age of fourteen years have been employed or permitted to work, or children between the ages of fourteen years and sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day, or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of seven o'clock postmeridian, or before the hour of six o'clock antemeridian: Provided, That a prosecution and conviction of a defendant for the shipment or delivery for shipment of any article or commodity under the conditions herein prohibited shall be a bar to any further prosecution against the same defendant for shipments or deliveries for shipment of any such article or commodity before the beginning of said prosecution.

Answer 2

i think the answer is A

Answer 3

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Answer 4

@AloneS

Answer 5

the answer was not A