The Keating-Owen child labor act was created in response to an outcry from the public that the 1900 census revealed over two-million children were employed on the streets, in factories, and in mines. In 1908 Lewis Hines was hired to photograph children while working, and in 1916 the Keating-Owen Act was passed. The act prohibited the sale of goods from companies employing children under the age of 14. However the law was deemed unconstitutional two years later by the Supreme Court because they deemed that the federal government was overstepping its power to regulate interstate commerce. As a result the government would struggle for a few more years to find an effective way to regulate child labor.
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