Why did many children work in the 1800s? A: They needed to earn money for their families.
B: Jobs were easy and fun.
C: Jobs paid high wages.
D: They wanted something to do besides going to school.

What was one reason that southern states passed laws after 1800 to discourage manumission? 1)southern whites feared that freed blacks would seek revenge for past treatment as slaves. 2) northern leaders pressured southerners to liberate enslaved people. 3)southern states needed an inexpensive labor force to work in southern factories. 4)northern whites had sold their slaves to southerners before slavery was banned in the north.