USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Born in Cedarville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860, and graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, Jane Addams founded, with Ellen Gates Starr, the world famous social settlement Hull-House on Chicago’s Near West Side in 1889.

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: -Jane Addams as a young woman Hull House was a progressive social settlement aimed at reducing poverty by providing social services and education to working class immigrants and laborers (Harvard University Library, n.d.).

Detailed explanation-4: -Jane Addams wanted to help people who lived in slums like these. In the 1880s Jane Addams traveled to Europe. While she was in London, she visited a settlement house called Toynbee Hall. Settlement houses were created to provide community services to ease urban problems such as poverty.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded the Hull House in Chicago’s near west side. [1] Inspired by London’s Toynbee Hall, the Hull House broke ground as the first settlement house in the United States.