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 * Plessy Vs. Ferguson.**

Plessy who was one eigth black, intentionally boarded an all white bus, and refused to get off, his goal was to test the law. The case was taken to the Supreme Court, and Plessy was charged with breaking the 13th and 14th amendments of the constitution. Plessy vs. Ferguson, began to open the way for blacks and whites to become equal.


 * Triangle Shirtwaist Factory**

The Triangle Shirtwaist factory was an unorganized building in New York. One time the factory caught fire, and all the doors were locked execpt one door to prevent the workers from stealing the shirts. The locked doors trapped 400+ workers, and they tried to jump form the windows, due to the locked doors and the melted fire escape, none of them survived. During the next week, up to 100,000 people went on strike to get better conditions for the workers in the local factories.


 * Pullman Strike**

May 11, 1894

George Pullman was a wealthy traincar company owner, who used his money to build his own town, and he made all his employees live in his small town, and pay the rent. The workers were dissatisfied with having to pay their wages back to George Pullman. The conflict escalated when the economy dropped and Pullman's cars weren't in demand, and Pullman had to cut the wages of the workers, but didn't cut the rent of the workers. Eugine Debbs was the leader of the railroad union, and he called a strike against pullman, crippling the railroad system, and causing a national problem. George Pullman went to the government and threatened to stop his buisness, making the government side with him. The governemt stopped the strike by sending in the army and used force to stop the strike.

=White Male=

Middle Class American
America was catering to the white male middle class americans, which caused a problem since many people were not white male middle class americans. **Booker T. Washington** thought that by having blacks slowly assimilate into the white community was the best way to stop the segregation between black and white people. Felt that education was the key to advancement.


 * W.E.B Du Bois** wanted the colored community to fight the white community and assimilate into the community quickly and forcefully. He thought that the blacks were already equal and needed to prove it. Formed the NAACP.


 * Suffragetes**: women who wanted the right to vote.

Women didn't have the right to vote because it was assumed they would vote same as husband.


 * Karie Catt**: was a well to do woman who wanted to have a luncheon, and invite the governers and buisness men to show that they were just as capeable as the men to think and get their privelage to vote. Wanted the members of her organization to support soldigers during WWI. Ultimately got women the right to vote.


 * Alice Paul**: Also wanted womens rights and she wanted to fight their way into rights and took the approach similar to Du Bois' opinion for the blacks. Didn't send soldigers to WWI because wanted rights first.


 * Theodore/Teddy D. Rosevelt**: Actually hated the name "Teddy" due to his wife and mothers death in the same room on the same day, and the name made him remember that day. Used to work as the Assistant Secretary to the Navy, left job to fight small war in Cuba during Spanish American war. Came back a hero, and ran for president, wanted to beat the democratic political machine, was extremely popular. Teddy tried to fix things for the average person. Teddy was put on the ticket as the Vice President. After the election, Teddy was put in as the Vice President, and a year after the election the president was shot and killed, making Teddy the president. Approach was "Speak softly and carry a big stick". Began the digging of the Panama Canal. Did big things to push the country forward. Was Re-Elected, and chose Wililam Taft to come into office after him. Rosevelt made the Bull-Moose party to run against Wilson, he got shot before a speech, didn't die, and won the rublican canidacy, but lost to Woodrow Wilson in Presidential Election


 * William Taft**: Wanted to buy way through the world. Didn't do the things that Rosevelt wanted him to do, so Rosevelt runs against him for re-election.


 * Woodrow Wilson**: Democratic president after Taft, wanted to do "the right thing." Mexico was having problems, Wilson wanted to go down to Mexico and wanted to put President in seat. Poncho Via took over the presidency, and then ran into the badlands of Texas, and rounded up all the Mexican forces and began to violently attack the Americans on the border of the United States and Mexico. US wanted to go and find Poncho Via, but had to stop for WWI. Eventually Poncho Via when was attacked by an Angry Mexican.