immigration
Labor Movement\ Triangle Shirtwaist factory
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what is a tenement?
What is an apartment house with poor safety sanitation and comfort conditions
100
Why couldn't workers escape from the fire?
The doors were locked. The company was on the 8th floor and the firefighter ladders only reached the 6th floor.
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what is Ellis Island?
A small island near the Statue of Liberty in NY, where immigrants were checked for diseases and documents before they could live in America.
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1911
What year was the fire?
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Why were ghettos important back then?
the immigrants wanted a place to live that was cheap and they wanted to live near other people like them.
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More than 140 workers, mostly women
How many people died in the fire?
400
what are the 3 things most immigrants have in common?
They were either Greek Orthodox, Jewish, or Catholic. They didn't speak much English. They were not used to life and work conditions in the US
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A shirtwaist is a women's shirt.
What is a Shirtwaist?
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why did most new immigrants settle in cities?
they settled in cities because they saw cities as places to begin a new life.
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Building safety laws
What kind of laws were passed because of this fire?
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