HISTORY 40C Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jim Crow Laws, Wright Brothers, Theodore Roosevelt
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Triangle shirtwaist company- it was an important company located in new york city in the early. 1900s in which adult and teen females would work long and tedious hours in horrible working conditions for little pay. The triangle shirtwaist company experienced a fire starting from a cigarette, killing nearly 150 workers who were trapped. It called the government to enforce labor policies regulating labor and working conditions. Political machines- political machines were organizations created by politicians to guarantee their winning in elections through legal and illegal means. Politicians paid the immigrants to vote for them in a certain way. The politicians would win the loyalty of immigrant voters by helping immigrants find jobs and by providing them food, fuel, and clothing. Combine farming machine- the combine farming machine was a machine used for farming in the early twentieth century. It significantly increased the food capacity because farmers could grow and market more food.
