Often, the conditions that children and workers worked in were unsafe and they worked long hours with no rest. they worked all day. sometimes they would get stuck in machinery and get hurt or even die. also, working in factories caused health problems for many children and workers.
Attacking Lincoln's resupply brigade would make the South the aggressive party. But he simply could not allow the fort to be resupplied. J.G. GILCHRIST, a Southern newspaper writer, warned, "Unless you sprinkle the blood in the face of the people of Alabama, they will be back in the old Union in less than ten days."
Davis decided he had no choice but to order Anderson to surrender Sumter. Anderson refused.
The secret police attempted to identify citizens who opposed the Communist Party and who could undermine it.