HISTORY 40C Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Wright Brothers, Sweatshop
8 Jun 2016
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These terms and their significance come from both book and lecture. Triangle shirtwaist company- 1911 fire, new york city garment factory. Owner locked the doors to keep employees at work. 146 jewish and italian women workers died from nine-story leaps to floor. Sweat shop problem and many states passed new regulations on wages and hours for women and children. Congress made laws preventing child labor but the. Supreme court declared them unconstitutional for several decades but then finally allowed them to pass. Political machines- politicians began building political organizations called machines to guarantee their success in municipal elections. The bosses who ran these machines served their own needs first. Immigrants valued them for giving social welfare services and for creating opportunities for upward mobility. Combine farming machine- invented by hiram moore in 1834, and early versions were pulled by horse or mule teams. Made farming a lot easier for people in 1900s.
