Question

How did the passage of compulsory school attendance laws affect child labor in the United States?

Children received better training to work in factories.
Children could not work in factories if they had to attend school.
Children worked in special factories that were opened in schools.
Children were paid more to attend school than to work in factories.

Answer 1

Children could not work in factories if they had to attend school.

Compulsory attendance laws kept children in school during the workday and reduced the number available for factory labor, contributing to a decline in child labor.