USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Settlement houses were created because of increasing-
A
immigrant populations
B
urban employment
C
educational opportunities
D
government regulation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Settlement houses were safe residences in poverty-stricken, mostly immigrant neighborhoods in major cities, such as New York, Boston, and Chicago. The settlement house movement began in England and then emerged in the U.S. in 1886 with the founding of University Settlement House in New York City.

Detailed explanation-2: -Settlement houses were meant to move beyond charity, instead bringing together people from the middle and upper classes to work with and for the poor.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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