Question

How did industrialization in the United States change the lives of women and children in the
nineteenth century?
A Women and children gained higher social status as business owners.
B Women and children were more educated in order to compete for jobs.
C Women and children increasingly became wage earns in their families.
D Women and children rose as leaders in the movement to organize labor.

Answer 1

Answer:

Women and children increasingly became wage earns in their families.

Option: (C)

Explanation:

• With the advent of industrialization, a large number of people from rural areas migrated to industrial areas.

• This migration of people excessively fulfilled the need for labor and the labor went on becoming cheaper and cheaper day by day.

• Soon, it started becoming difficult to run families on the minimal wages earned by only the working male head of the family.

• Hence, women and children also had to inevitable become wage earners.