In the context of the article, what can we learn from tragedy? How did this tragedy alert the United States about factory working conditions? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your answer.

interest groups send representatives to state capitals and to washington, d.c. to put pressure on members of congress and other policymakers. they engage in lobbying, or the organized process of influencing legislation or policy. lobbying can take many forms. interest groups can testify in congressional hearings.

would be the one having to do with paine talking about how the colonies are so "close" to independence anyway, since he viewed that only rational next step at this point being revolution.