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“Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.” History.Com, www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/triangle-shirtwaist-fire. Accessed 19 May 2023.

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“Uprising Summary and Study Guide.” SuperSummary, www.supersummary.com/uprising/summary/. Accessed 19 May 2023.

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Lemire, Jeff. Sweet Tooth, created by Jim Mickle, season 1, Netflix.

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Taylor Swift . “Right Where You Left Me .” Aaron Dessner , 18 Dec. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur_wAcYDnuA. Accessed 19 May 2023.

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Marino, Andy. Escape from East Berlin. Scholastic, 2022.

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Connections between Uprising, Sweet Tooth, and the essential question

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Connections between Uprising, Sweet Tooth, and the essential question

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In Uprising, they face the challenges of needing money so they moved to get a new job but their family ends up dying. In Sweet Tooth, one of the people captured a different guy that was like Sweet Tooth and killed him to try to find the cure. It did not work. In Sweet Tooth, they face challenges just like they do in Uprising.

Sweet Tooth connects to the essential questions because it shows us the effects relationships can have on people. When Sweet Tooth's dad died, Sweet Tooth was very sad and had nowhere to go. We are able to see how the loss of his relationship affected him.

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Sweet Tooth is about a boy that was born a hybrid and there is this thing called the sick if u catch it u die sweet tooth's father died from it. he was left all alone didn't know what to do so he stayed home eventually people captured him and this random guy helped him escape later on in the show. they find challenges such as people trying to get sweet tooth so they can find the cure for the sick but they soon realize that sweet tooth and the rest of them like him don't have anything to do with the sick.

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Taylor Swift - right where you left me (Official Lyric Video)

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Right where you left me is a song by Taylor Swift from the album "Evermore."  The song is explaining how she is stuck in the past from a relationship and can't move on with her life. Taylor mentions the age of 23 where the protagonist froze in time after a brutal breakup. In the song, she says that dust collected on her pinned-up hair and that everyone expected her to find somewhere, which shows how time froze and she was still there, at the restaurant. The relationship affected her because she couldn't move on, she kind of explained it as she carved her future out on a stone with this guy, but when he left, it was hard to erase those carvings. Taylor recalls a time when she was sitting in the corner, cross-legged signaling that she was nervous, The dim light around her covers up her emotions in her face, and this is where he left her, and she never left that spot.

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"Right where you left me" By Taylor Swift 

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"Right where you left me" By Taylor Swift 

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Did history unfold accurately in your book? 

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Did history unfold accurately in your book? 

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Yes, During the fire, Margaret Peterson Haddix put a lot of detail into making it sound like real history. She explained how the doors were locked and the intensity started to rise. On the websites that I read, It says how some people managed to escape to the roof, some people jumped, and some people got burned alive. In the book, Jane burned to death in the fire on the 9th floor, and Yetta jumped from the building, trying to grab the latter but missed. She fell on a net with Jacob, but when she fell, the net snapped. Bella escaped to the roof with people on the 10th floor. Bella also said later in the book that Yetta's death had accomplished more things she wanted to accomplish in her life. Margaret Peterson Haddix also did very well with describing the strike in the book and how Yetta never gave up on it.

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"Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire" by History.com 

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"Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire" by History.com 

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According to Super Summary and History.com, Uprising is a novel about a historical event that happened in 1911. It happened in New York at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory and the fire killed 146 immigrant workers. The Triangle fire followed a city-wide strike led by shirtwaist workers. The girls that fled down the stairwells were met by a locked door at the bottom of the stairs, many were burned alive.  Before the fire, a Union led a strike at the Shirtwaist factory. The workers only got paid a mere 15 dollars a week, they worked 12 hours a day, every day. 49 workers had burned to death or choked on the smoke, 36 were dead in the elevator shaft, 58 died from jumping to the sidewalks, and 2 or more died from their injuries later in time.

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Table of Contents

1. Working Conditions in The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

2. What Started The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?

3. Importance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 146 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable-most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers.

Working Conditions in The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, was located in the top three floors of the Asch Building, on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, in Manhattan. It was a true sweatshop, employing young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at lines of sewing machines. Nearly all the workers were teenaged girls who did not speak English and worked 12 hours a day, every day. In 1911, there were four elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and the workers had to file down a long, narrow corridor in order to reach it. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent stealing and the other only opened inward. The fire escape was so narrow that it would have taken hours for all the workers to use it, even in the best of circumstances.

Did you know? Exactly 79 years to the day after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, another tragic fire occurred in New York City. The blaze, at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx, killed 87 people, the most deadly fire in the city since 1911.

The danger of fire in factories like the Triangle Shirtwaist was well-known, but high levels of corruption in both the garment industry and city government generally ensured that no useful precautions were taken to prevent fires. Blanck and Harris already had a suspicious history of factory fires. The Triangle factory was twice scorched in 1902, while their Diamond Waist Company factory burned twice, in 1907 and in 1910. It seems that Blanck and Harris deliberately torched their workplaces before business hours in order to collect on the large fire-insurance policies they purchased, a not uncommon practice in the early 20th century. While this was not the cause of the 1911 fire, it contributed to the tragedy, as Blanck and Harris refused to install sprinkler systems and take other safety measures in case they needed to burn down their shops again.

Added to this delinquency were Blanck and Harris' notorious anti-worker policies. Their employees were paid a mere $15 a week, despite working 12 hours a day, every day. When the International Ladies Garment Workers Union led a strike in 1909 demanding higher pay and shorter and more predictable hours, Blanck and Harris' company was one of the few manufacturers who resisted, hiring police as thugs to imprison the striking women, and paying off politicians to look the other way.

What Started The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?

On March 25, a Saturday afternoon, there were 600 workers at the factory when a fire began in a rag bin. The manager attempted to use the fire hose to extinguish it, but was unsuccessful, as the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. As the fire grew, panic ensued. The young workers tried to exit the building by the elevator but it could hold only 12 people and the operator was able to make just four trips back and forth before it broke down amid the heat and flames. In a desperate attempt to escape the fire, the girls left behind waiting for the elevator plunged down the shaft to their deaths. The girls who fled via the stairwells also met awful demises-when they found a locked door at the bottom of the stairs, many were burned alive.

Those workers who were on floors above the fire, including the owners, escaped to the roof and then to adjoining buildings. As firefighters arrived, they witnessed a horrible scene. The girls who did not make it to the stairwells or the elevator were trapped by the fire inside the factory and began to jump from the windows to escape it. The bodies of the jumpers fell on the fire hoses, making it difficult to begin fighting the fire. Also, the firefighters ladders reached only seven floors high and the fire was on the eighth floor. In one case, a life net was unfurled to catch jumpers, but three girls jumped at the same time, ripping the net. The nets turned out to be mostly ineffectual.

Within 18 minutes, it was all over. Forty-nine workers had burned to death or been suffocated by smoke, 36 were dead in the elevator shaft and 58 died from jumping to the sidewalks. With two more dying later from their injuries, a total of 146 people were killed by the fire.

Importance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

The fire helped unite organized labor and reform-minded politicians like progressive New York Governor Alfred E. Smith and Senator Robert F. Wagner, one of the legislative architects of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agenda. Frances Perkins, who served on a committee that helped to set up the Factory Investigating Commission in New York in the wake of the fire, would later become Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor. The workers union set up a march on April 5 on New York's Fifth Avenue to protest the conditions that had led to the fire. It was attended by 80,000 people.

Despite a good deal of evidence that the owners and management had been horribly negligent in the fire, a grand jury failed to indict them on manslaughter charges. To settle lawsuits against them, they eventually paid $75 in compensation to each victim's family-a fraction of the $400 per death that they were paid by their insurer.

Still, the massacre for which they were responsible did finally compel the city to enact reform. In addition to the Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Law passed that October, the New York Democratic set took up the cause of the worker and became known as a reform party. Both were crucial in preventing similar disasters in the future.

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On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 146 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable.

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Uprising is a novel of historical fiction by Margaret Peterson Haddix. The story revolves around a 1911 New York fire at The Triangle shirtwaist factory that killed 146 immigrant workers. The Triangle firefollowed a citywide strike led by the shirtwaist workers that served to summon great public interest. Thus, the fire was perceived as not only a great tragedy, but an inciting symbol for the Labor Movement in the Industrial Revolution.

Haddix's narrative interweaves the perspectives of three women from different classes and social situations: Bella, Yetta, and Jane. Bella is a young immigrant worker just off the boat from Italy who is desperate to send money home to her starving family. Yetta is a fervent activist, self-proclaimed revolutionary, and a Jewish refugee seeking asylum from a Russian pogrom. Jane is the daughter of a wealthy (but nouveau-riche) businessman who desires to liberate herself amidst her support for The Triangle strike.

Through Yetta and Bella, the reader is introduced to the financial exploitation and poor working conditions experienced by immigrant workers in the shirtwaist factory. Workers are refused payment for "learning" days when they fill in for sick workers. Their already meager earningsare docked for the slightest infractions. Bosses operate like prison wardens, locking the doors of the factory until closing time, then searching their workers for stolen goods as they leave. The unbearable factory conditions lead to an uprising of the shirtwaist workers. Yetta joins a group of strikers who picket daily outside The Triangle. While picketing, Yetta meets Jane, who has joined a group of Vassar socialites supporting the strike. Though wealthy, Jane feels imprisoned by social expectations for women.

Despite their radical differences, Bella, Yetta, and Jane unite in the fight for labor rights and women's suffrage. In their combined efforts, the three girls become good friends. When the historical fire breaks out on March 25, 1911, the reader finds that all three women are present at the Triangle Waist Company. Through the tragedy that ensues, each woman bravely confronts her own personal struggle, as the city joins together in both mourning and remembering.

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Uprising is a novel of historical fiction by Margaret Peterson Haddix. The story revolves around a 1911 New York fire at The Triangle shirtwaist factory that killed 146 immigrant workers. The Triangle firefollowed a citywide strike led by the shirtwaist workers that served to summon great public interest.

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Escape from East Berlin, tells two different stories of freedom from East Berlin. Each story is set followed by different characters and set in different timelines. One story is at the beginning of the Berlin Wall, and the other is at the end. Two people want to leave East Berlin and go to West Berlin and they also have conflicts with their family.  They escaped because they want to live a better life out of the wall.

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""Yetta would have been so proud of those. And the Red Cross fire relief committee helped Rahel bring their family over after the fire, just before a pogrom destroyed their village. It's so wrong, It shouldn't have worked this way but... Yetta's death accomplished so many of the things that she'd wanted to accomplish with her life'" (Haddix 320)

"In the morning, the rose was frozen, its stem caught in ice. Bella spread the petals across the kitchen table to dry out, and all three of them tucked petals into their pillowcases. Just that one rose carried them the rest of the way through the winter.  It made everything else they hoped for seem so much closer." (Haddix 268)

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In Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix, There are 3 main characters; Bella, Jane, and Yetta. Bella came from Italy without her family, without money, and didn't know how to speak English, She met her cousin, Pietro in America. Yetta came from Russia without her Mom and Dad but met her sister in America. Jane is more on the wealthier side at the beginning. Pietro finds Bella a job at the shirtwaist factory named Triangle. Yetta also works at the shirtwaist factory, That's where Bella and Yetta meet one night when Bella was waiting for Pietro but he never showed, Jane didn't have to work till later into the book. Sadly, Jane and Yetta die in the fire at the end of the book, But Bella lives on and pays respect towards Jane and Yetta.

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How do relationships affect people?