Christmas Carol Fact or Fiction

Christmas Carol Fact or Fiction

Children went to work beginning at age 8 (or younger) during Dickens’s
time.

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2. Fiction

Charles Dickens was born to a rich family.

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2. Fiction

Once people entered the workhouse, they
could never leave.

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2. Fiction

There was a prison for people who could not pay
their bills on time.

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2. Fiction

The poor were made to
wear a uniform. This meant that everyone looked the same and everyone outside knew they were poor and lived in the
workhouse.

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2. Fiction

School was only for the rich children ages 5-10.

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2. Fiction

Dickens had to live in a
workhouse.

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2. Fiction

Dickens supported “The Poor Law” that
created the workhouse system.

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2. Fiction

Children could find themselves 'hired out' (sold) to work in
factories or mines from workhouses.

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2. Fiction

Children worked 12 to 18 hours a day.

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2. Fiction

Dickens had to work beginning at
age 12.

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2. Fiction

The average life span of a working- class citizen was 22 years.

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2. Fiction

Malnutrition or disease caused nearly half of the funerals in London to be held for children under the
age of 10 in 1839.

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2. Fiction

Workhouses were meant to be horrible places to prevent people from being lazy and wanting to go
there.

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2. Fiction

Also in the workhouses were
orphaned (children without parents) and abandoned children, the physically and mentally sick, the disabled, the elderly and unmarried
mothers.

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2. Fiction

The workhouses fed the poor only meager rations which Dickens believed created
uncivilized people.

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2. Fiction

One reason there was a high unemployment rate was due to a population explosion in London during Dickens’s
time.

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2. Fiction

One reason there was a high unemployment rate was due to a population explosion in London during Dickens’s
time.

1. Fact
2. Fiction