All that the factory owners needed was a dependable supply of labor to tend the machines. ... The factory owners at Lowell believed that machines would bring progress as well as profit. ... They increased the number of machines that each girl had to operate. ... They worked side by side, had the same interests and held similar political views. ... In the past, they had taken great pride in their handicraft skills; now machines did practically all the work, and they were reduced to the status of common laborers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Children as young as five or six manned machines or did jobs such as sweeping floors to earn money. ... He also thought the unions should be primarily concerned with the day-to-day welfare of the members and should not become involved with politics. ... A powerful reform called Progressivism swept the country in the early years of the twentieth century. ... They wanted to make the political system and the economic system more democratic. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

(Rice, Bullough, Orsi, & Irwin, 2012, p. 169) While fixing a wheel on a machine Marshall stumbled upon an odd looking rock. ... The gold rush was a great reform in United States history. ... Some of California's labor movements have represented significant political events on a national if not a global scale-as in the historic struggle of labor activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. ... ("Labor Union Movement," 2001, para. 5) Unions thrived for several decades after, sending a detonation of labor reform across the nation. ...

• Word Count: 2685
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• Grade Level: High School