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]
Jacob Riis, Jane Addams, and Margaret Sanger are most closely associated with efforts to ____
A
educate and train formerly enslaved persons
B
preserve the natural environment
C
advance the interests of organized labor
D
improve conditions for the poor
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Bellringer Jacob Riis, Jane Addams, and Margaret Sanger are most closely associated with efforts to educate and train formerly enslaved persons preserve.

Detailed explanation-2: -In an era where many reacted negatively to immigrants and immigration, Jane Addams envisioned and fought for an America where immigrants contributed as much as they received to the nation and where many voices together made the country stronger.

Detailed explanation-3: -Addams believed in woman suffrage and dedicated her time to lecturing and lobbying for suffrage at the city, state and national level. She was a vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and wrote a series of columns for the Ladies Home Journal and other magazines to popularize the idea.

Detailed explanation-4: -Inspired by English reformers who intentionally resided in lower-class slums, Addams, along with a college friend, Ellen Starr, moved in 1889 into an old mansion in an immigrant neighborhood of Chicago.

Detailed explanation-5: -She was an important leader in the history of social work and women’s suffrage in the United States. Addams co-founded Chicago’s Hull House, one of America’s most famous settlement houses, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families.

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