USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Settlement houses offered social, educational, and welfare services to migrant and impoverished communities. They were generally founded and run by women in industrial cities.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The network of settlement supporters included civic organizations, women’s clubs, businessmen’s groups, and often trade unions. This same coalition supported settlement efforts to secure state laws regulating child labor, hours of work for women, and women’s wages.

Detailed explanation-4: -The middle-class leaders joined underserved urban neighborhoods and opened their homes to the local children, parents, families, and older adults. These houses served as gathering places for fostering relationships that would serve as the foundation for stronger, healthier communities.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr established Hull-House in Chicago, the first settlement house in the United States.