New Types of Reform Laws
 Parliament begins to investigate child labor and
working conditions
 Parliament passed the Factory Act 1833
 Parliament passed the Mines Act 1842
 Parliament passed the Ten Hours Act 1847
 In the U.S. organization of the National Child
Labor Committee
 1919 U.S. Supreme Court objected to federal
child labor law (state rights)
 Individual States could regulate working hours
Abolition of Slavery
England
William Wilberforce led
the fight for abolition
United States
Slavery ended at the end
of the Civil War
Puerto Rico ended 1873
Cuba ended in 1886
Brazil in 1888
Women’s Rights
Britain
• Women served as
inspectors were other
women worked
United States
• Educated women ran
settlement houses
– Jane Addams
• Wanted their own rights
Other Reforms
• Public Education led by Horace Mann in the
United States
Educate children to be good citizens and
knowledgeable
• Prison Reform in 1831
– American prisons were seen as brutal conditions
– New goal to provide prisoners with skills and traits
to be useful in society when released