How many people died in the fire ✔️Ans - 146 young workers
Why does the incident have great significance to this day ✔️Ans - It
highlight the inhuman working conditions to which industrial workers can be
subjected
What were the hallmarks of sweatshops ✔️Ans - Low wages, excessively
long hours, unsanity and dangerous working conditions
How was rose exploited by her boss ✔️Ans - He refused to employ her
except by the week
Why didn't rose leave the shop ✔️Ans - For the fear a day or more perhaps
in finding other work
How long did the fire last, and how much destruction was there to the building
✔️Ans - Half an hour and it shows now hardly and signs of the disaster
How old were most of the girls and what were most of their nationalities
✔️Ans - 16-23 and many of them came from brooklyn
Who owned the company and how did they escape ✔️Ans - Isaac Harris
and max blanck and they fled to the roofs
What alternatives did people have to try to escape ✔️Ans - Jumping from
the windows
What was one of the saddest features of the fire ✔️Ans - They had almost
finished for the day
Why did the interior of the building burn so quickly, and why were firemen
unable to reach the workers with ladders ✔️Ans - The building was
covered with cotton which caused the fire to spread quickly and because of all
of the bodies on the sidewalk