Questions:
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/index.html
Pretend you are a journalist writing a story on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire ten years after the event.
After reading about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and reading the primary sources on Cornell's site, write a story that covers the following questions:
What was life like for shirtwaist workers in 1911 New York? What conditions led to the fire? How did the city and the world react to what happened? How was the event mourned and protested? What changes resulted from the fire?
Please be sure to include quotes from the primary source documents. Also, be sure to comment on why this was such a significant event in American History. In your article, you might consider including discussions of immigration, industrialization, unionization and issues facing the early twentieth-century working class.