HISTORY 40C Study Guide - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Jim Crow Laws, Wright Brothers
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: the changing modes of production and consumption; wealth and poverty. : the growth of federal government; rise of us. Specific topics of this week: power in world. Section: introduction to how sections will be run. These terms and their significance come from both book and lecture. 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.
