Explanation:
The factories also were unsanitary, or as a young striker explained, “unsanitary—that's the word that is generally used, but there ought to be a worse one used.” At the Triangle factory, women had to leave the building to use the bathroom, so management began locking the steel exit doors to prevent the “interruption of ...
When the fire broke out, the workers had trouble escaping because the fire exits had been locked by the owners, who feared the workers might steal cloth.
Many freedmen did not have anywhere to go because many people at the time did not allow blacks to work for them. So blacks worked for farmers for small wages. This created so-called new slavery because the blacks would be paid so little for their work (almost a few cents for 1 year of work)
Charleston was an incredibly important city in the South because of its location--it was located on a prime piece of coast line that made importing and exporting goods relatively fast and easy.
Pursing a dangerous policy to the limits of of saftey before stopping. Cuban Missile Crisis
