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The Industrial Revolution brought not only new job opportunities but new laborers to the workforce: children. By 1900, 18 percent of all American workers were under the age of 16. 1904, the National Child Labor Committee formed in the hopes of ending the horrors of child labor. Congress tried to address the issue in 1916, by passing the Keating-Owns Act that set tighter standards on children's employment requirements.
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