WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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To challenge the political machines
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To provide jobs for unemployed
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To unite farmers and workers against industry
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To help the urban poor
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull-House to offer social services to the community. Some of those services included legal aid, an employment office, childcare, and training in crafting and domestic skills.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1889, Addams and Starr founded Hull House in Chicago’s poor, industrial west side, the first settlement house in the United States. The goal was for educated women to share all kinds of knowledge, from basic skills to arts and literature with poorer people in the neighborhood.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hull House also provided English-language classes and citizenship classes to help immigrants become integrated into American society. In addition to providing services specifically aimed at the Chicago immigrant experience, Hull House was consistently expanding to help women, children, labor groups, and the arts.
Detailed explanation-4: -The impact rippled across the nation as the work of Hull House and its activists helped establish child labor laws, women’s suffrage, workmen’s compensation, and other hallmarks of the Progressive Era.