What was a common role of working children in urban centers during the period of industrialization?

a.
they would their parents operate small businesses and learn the family trade.

b.
they would go into small spaces of the machines in factories that adults could not reach.

c.
they were used to translate messages from their parents’ managers into english.

d.
they would participate in a work-study program where they went to school and did paid labor.

A is the correct

Explanation:

Due to the fact of INDUSTRIALIZATION period, families used to have small businesses, family crops or kind of cows, pork and some agriculture. But in the urban spaces like small stores or small negotiations was very helpful to have children around the adults to see them working, sharing knowledge and learn from them to continue the family tradition in the future.

The correct answer is B. They would go into small spaces of the machines in factories that adults could not reach.

Explanation

During the time of industrialization, the factories of the urban centers were very important because there was concentrated the greatest producing force of the countries. At this time, most companies employed children to work because their salary was less than that of adult men, and because of their size, they could enter the smaller compartments of the machines. So, the correct answer is B. They would go into small spaces of the machines in factories that adults could not reach.

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.