What role did women and african americans play in the war?

African Americans and women played a role in Civil war as nurses, cooks, teachers, laborers and later one were actually drafted into the war as soldiers, but many were used a cheap labor getting paid minimum wage.

answer: in 1900, there were no "workplace safety laws"!

explanation: at the beginning of this century, workers in the united states faced remarkably high health and safety risks on the job.

a century ago in 1900 about three hundred out of every one hundred thousand miners were killed on the job each year.

[industria] developments occurred within a legal and regulatory climate that diminished employer’s interest in safety. as a result, americans developed production methods that were both highly productive and often very dangerous.