USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

GILDED AGE POLITICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
To confront the problems of poverty, some Americans, such as Jane Addams, established community service centers in poor neighborhoods that were called
A
settlement houses, such as Hull House.
B
community centers, such as Carnegie Hall.
C
company towns, such as at the Homestead mill.
D
populists, such as led by William Jennings Bryan.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cleveland, along with Chicago, Boston, and New York, was one of the centers of the U.S. settlement-house movement. Local settlement work began in the late 1890s, and within a decade a half-dozen settlements operated in Cleveland neighborhoods.

Detailed explanation-2: -Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 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-3: -Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of the city, Hull House (named after the original house’s first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House in 1889 on the South side of Chicago, Illinois after being inspired by visiting Toynbee Hall in London.

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