Read the passages below and answer the question. “two children i know got employment in a factory when they were five years old…the spinning men or women employ children if they can get a child to do their business…the child is paid one shilling or one shilling and six pence, and they will take that (five year old) child before they take an older one who will cost more.” --george gould, a manchester merchant, written in 1816. “the smallest child in the factories were scavengers……they go under the machine, while it is going…it is very dangerous when they first come, but they become used to it.” --charles aberdeen worked in a manchester cotton factory, written in 1832. based on the passages above, what are two possible reasons factory owners employed children? explain your answer using evidence from the text. write your response in at least four sentences.

the answer is 250 percent.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.