HIST 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Addams
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Causes of war, women"s vote, the great migration. The triangle shirtwaist factory fire - 1911 - new york. Taft runs and wins - also a progressive. Taft starts busting trusts - breaks up more monopolies than roosevelt - tries to break up a. Wells - born a slave - starts teaching at 14 - goes to rust college for teaching - moves to. 1892 - wells"s friends were lynched - thomas moss, henry stewart. Black families and black business have become a challenge to white people and so they"re trying to eradicate this problem . Rape has nothing to do with sex, and everything to do with power. - modern understanding about rape. Maybe white women were attracted to black men, and white men were attracted to black women . Meets with jane addams - but she was not a pacifist - the only way you can protect yourself is arming yourself .
