WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Question
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____ were opened to help immigrants adjust to their new lives in American cities.
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Political Clubs
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Tenements
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Settlement Houses
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Factories
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Settlement houses were organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr established Hull-House in Chicago, the first settlement house in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The settlement house movement started in England in 1884 when Cannon Samuel A Barnett, Vicar of St. Jude’s Parrish, founded Toynbee Hall in East London.
Detailed explanation-4: -Settlement houses were meant to move beyond charity, instead bringing together people from the middle and upper classes to work with and for the poor.
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