What caused leaders to push for child labor laws and shorter workweeks as well as for a limit on the power of corporations and trusts?

A.) Settlement houses

B.) political Machines

C.) the Social Gospel

D.) the Supreme Court

The answer is C.) the Social Gospel

The correct answer is:

C. The Social Gospel

Explanation:

The Social Gospel was social-religious movement created because of the industrialization and urbanization experienced in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. The Social Gospel goal was to restore society through Christian principles applied to labor reforms that constituted prohibition of child-labor, shorter workweeks, factory regulation, living wage and limits on the power of corporations and trusts.