Child Labor in Industrial Era

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Across
  1. 5. New machines need large amounts of this ____ to use as a fuel
  2. 7. What child laborers were called when they were smashing large lumps of coal into smaller pieces
  3. 9. It was not uncommon for miners to dig into areas of gas which could _____
  4. 11. Children were called _____ when they were pulling wagons of coal
  5. 14. These often occurred in both the mines and factories
  6. 16. Amount of money (in today's money) a child might earn in a week
Down
  1. 1. Children began working in factories as early as
  2. 2. If bosses put too many machines on a single for it could cause the building to _____
  3. 3. Place where many children worked up to 14 hours a day
  4. 4. Had few safety features making them very dangerous
  5. 6. Children were used as this in mines to open and close doors
  6. 8. Led many owners to try to cut wages of workers to save money
  7. 10. Bosses preferred to hire children than men/women because they were _____ labor
  8. 12. How many days a week most children worked
  9. 13. Wagons could weigh up to _____ and have to be pulled through passages
  10. 15. Some child minors were paid in _____ that could only be spent in stores owned by the company