USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
For helping immigrants in the poorest districts of Chicago, she received a Nobel Peace Prize.
A
Jane Addams
B
Susan B. Anthony
C
Ida Tarbell
D
Eleanor Roosevelt
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jane Addams was the second woman to receive the Peace Prize. 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -She and the other residents worked to educate Americans about immigrant cultures as she educated immigrants about how things worked in America. Addams speeches on immigrants and immigration offer the best avenue to understanding her views on the role that immigrants could play in American life.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jane Addams (born Laura Jane Addams, September 6, 1860-May 21, 1935) won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist. She was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children.

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