LAD 29 Keating-Owen Child Labor act

The Keating-Owen Child Labor act was passed in 1916. The act prohibited all factories, companies, and other stores to have any children working under the age of 14 for them. If there were any businesses that had children under the age of 14 working for them people were not allowed to buy their products. The act also made it so that you had to be 16 or older to work. The act was made to finally put an end to all of the child labor once and for all. The reason for the act was because of the results of a 1900 census. The results from the census showed that almost 2million children were working in horrible working conditions. The census opened the eyes of America and had them realize what was going on.