20 ! why were women and children forced to work in the late 1800s? education was very poor at the turn of the century. their additional income was necessary for family survival. parents were often heartless toward their children.

john maynard keynes developed new economic theories in response to the stock market crash of 1929. great depression of the 1930s. first and second world wars. economic boom of the 1950s.

they died because of a disease during the first spanish colonies.