USA HISTORY

THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825

AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did Jane Addams and the social settlement movement encourage progressive reform on a local level in the late 19th century?
A
Settlement houses often were the only social services that the urban poor had access to.
B
The social settlement movement organized and endorsed political campaigns of progressives
C
it helped mobilize women to take a more active role in their communities and politics
D
all of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Along with other progressive women reformers, she was instrumental in successfully lobbying for the establishment of a juvenile court system, better urban sanitation and factory laws, protective labor legislation for women, and more playgrounds and kindergartens throughout Chicago.

Detailed explanation-2: -She founded the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, and worked for many years to get the great powers to disarm and conclude peace agreements. In the USA, Jane Addams worked to help the poor and to stop the use of children as industrial laborers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jane Addams cofounded and led Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in North America. Hull House provided child care, practical and cultural training and education, and other services to the largely immigrant population of its Chicago neighbourhood. Addams also successfully advocated for social reform.

Detailed explanation-4: -Social reformer Jane Addams and close friend Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull-House, Chicago’s first settlement house, in the Near West Side in 1889. “Residents, ” progressive-minded men and women often from comfortable backgrounds, settled at Hull-House and assisted in the many programs offered.

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