Triangle Factory Fire Research Paper

During the period of 1861-1941, the United States endured major changes in the organization of the country. In less than a century, a country divided on grounds of slavery and racist institutions that built America since its founding turned into a nation at the forefront of technological advancement, fueled by citizen consumerism and nationalist pride. Emerging from the ashes of the Civil War, the American government sought to rebuild the South under Reconstruction while simultaneously undergoing change in the northern states with the rise of industry and factory labor. American society was on its way to becoming a superpower of industry, and with the rise of the Gilded Age, that transformation materialized. While it was landowning farmers …show more content…
The Triangle Factory Fire demonstrated that a lack of government intervention, adhering to a “Laissez-faire” system, came with the cost of worker safety. Inequality ravaged the country during the period that this textbook covers. But part of America’s reputation relies on its worldwide imperialism and the spread of inequality. While mainland America developed industrially, the government expanded rule to island territories like the Philippines, Guam, and Hawaii, with military bases on present-day Guam and Hawaii gaining statehood years later. American growth transcended the country’s borders and contributed to a sense of ethnocentrism and saviorism that only furthered the racism at the time. During the later part of this period, the Supreme Court was still detailing the role that government plays in protecting its citizens while maintaining freedom for every individual. The government censored those protesting the First World War and extremist politics, yet ideas of eugenics and white supremacy still arose in the resurgence of the KKK. These ideas prompted strict immigration quotas and a stigma around immigrants from many parts of the

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