Who's Who
32nd president of the United States, mentioned in the book.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This is what could happen to you if you were working on the subway.
What are cave ins, explosions, or getting hit by a train?
This was the effect of swamps forming and mosquito breeding.
What is malaria?
This event forced the movement of ready made clothes.
What is the Civil War?
This new tech allowed one to cut up to 100 layers of fabric at one time.
electric knife
Most famous for inventing the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
A minor injury from working in the sewing factories.
What is sewing through your finger?
This was the job that many Italian immigrants did.
What is subway building?
This is the meeting that led to the rise of the 20,000.
What is the Cooper Union meeting?
The addition of electricity to this machine increased its speed and therefore its productivity
sewing machine
A famous author who scared Americans into believing aliens were invading the earth.
Who is H.G. Wells?
A sickness developed from inhaling coal dust.
What is black lung?
This invention greatly approved the journey across the sea.
What is the steamship?
The assumed cause of the triangle fire
What was a ciggarette?
The fast moving transportation that was the cause of several Italian immigrant workers deaths.
What is the subway?
A steel baron who led the expansion of the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The typical workweek hours pre-union.
What are 100 hours?
This was the name of the buildings many immigrants lived in, named after the item it was shaped like.
What are dumbbell tenements?
Bosses did some questionable things to stop the strikers because they were getting desperate.
What is hire thugs and fancy ladies to attack the picketers?
These are some of the few improvements to fire prevention safety that we have today.
What are fire escapes, fire drills, fire extinguishers, etc
A small, yet well spoken girl who called for a general strike even after being beaten by thugs.
Who is Clara Lemlich?
Two conditions that led to the disaster at the triangle factory.
Poorly made fire escapes, flammable material, no fire drills, no water hookups, tight crowded stairwells, smoking inside, etc.
This was how the Russian Jewish immigrants differed from the Italian Immigrants.
Russian immigrants were primarily merchants and artisans before leaving for America.
This was one of the positive effects of moving from sweatshops to factories.
What was...Better lighting, healthier environment, regular hours, bathrooms
This piece of technology was able to escort several women to safety before it broke down.
What is an elevator?