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Triangle The Fire That Changed AmericaDisasters can be so impactful some can forever counter transpose the course of history. magic spell party at the time thought this story would soon pass, and with it solely the potential bad publicity, the story of the Triangle put down spread quickly, and churn up many people. On a beautiful spring day in March 1911 when 146 workers lost their lives, a fire would prove it could do what eld of reformers had failed to do, get the government on the side of the workers. I would argue that the fire largely impacted the country. Specifically, the Triangle Fire ended up changing late Yorks interconnected political and economic scene, and spurred on the understructure of stricter safety codes. For the first time owners would hold responsibility for their actions. Max Blanck and Isaac Harris being indicted for manslaughter was proof of this. Social castrate seemed to be spurred as well the common public and impudentlyspapers would come back the workers of New York. Large institutions would suffer as well. Tammany Hall would be feared less and less by waves of new immigrants. The largest change brought about by the blaze would be legislation. Twenty-five bills, recasting the intentness laws of the state The political scene of New York was altered greatly as a result of the Triangle Fire. Still dominated by the machine-boss system, New York was prime example of graft and get downion of politicians. Tammany Hall still reigned supreme, nonetheless after the fall of Boss Tweed in the 1870s, and a man named Charles Murphy headed it. In 1909, when workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went on strike, owners Max Blanck and Isaac Harris used the police and gangsters to get the strikers to give up their cause. The suppliers of these corrupt office... ...arose in New York soon existed throughout the country. Von Drehle makes it very clearly in his book that the Triangle fire did in fact, as the subtitle suggests, chang e America. He gives clear examples of how the Triangle fire led Tammany Hall to intimately completely shift its agenda, and how it also led to a plethora of new safety codes. His argument is made especially compelling by how he gives a detailed background of many key people have-to doe with and also how he describes in detail how things were before and after the fire. This gives the ref a fuller understanding of the time period around the fire, and and so shows how much the fire actually changed things. After reading his book, it is abundantly clear that the Triangle fire was a main cause of political change and safety reform in America. Although terrible, it led to many positive changes in American politics.