1. Jane Addams By Kayzia Whiteaker

2. Born in Cedarville, Illinois September 6 th, 1860 At the age of four she suffered spinal tuberculosis Lost her sister at the age of six

3. Her Parents John Huy Addams Miller, Banker, and landowner Idealist and Philanthropist State senator of Illinois From 1854-1870 Sarah Weber Addams Died when Jane was 2

4. Her Father Remarried At the age of 8 Jane’s father remarried Married a woman named Anna Hostetter She had two sons Her son George moved into the house

5. 1877-Enters Rockford Female Seminary She wanted to attend Smith College but was not aloud to by her father. She made the most of going to Rockford.

6. 1881-Graduates from Rockford Right after she graduated for Rockford Woman’s Seminary a friend of the family assassinated President Garfield Her brother Weber was institutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia Her father died during a vacation Jane suffered a nervous collapse Diagnosed as moral failure

7. Goes on a tour of Europe After she was released from the hospital after her nervous collapse she had a new back surgery. After her recovery she went on a tour of Europe to get back to daily life. Visits Toynbee Hall in London, England-1888 The birth place of her idea for the Hull- House

8. 1889-Found Hull-House Founded with the help of Ellen Gates Starr Offered an unprecedented co-ed experience A health Clinic Kindergarten Daycare Evening Educational programs So much more… http://womenshistory.about.com/od/addamsjane/p/jane_addams.htm Start at 7sec stop at 2 min

9. Hull-House

10. The Hull-House and So Much More…

11. Florence Kelley

12. Activism 1905-1908: Serves as a member of Chicago’s Board of Education 1903: Becomes vice president of the National Woman’s Trade Union League 1909: Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1909: Elected the 1 st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later known as the National Conference of Social Work)

13. Activism 1910: Mediator in Chicago Garment Worker’s Strike 1910: Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House 1911-1914: 1 st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association 1911-1914: 1 st Head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers

14. 1912-Seconds Theodore Roosevelt’s nomination at Progressive Party convention

15. World Peace 1913: Attends Conference and Congress of International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance (Budapest, Hungary) 1915: Helps Organize Woman’s Peace Party Elected 1 st chairman 1915: Presides at the International Congress of Women at the Hague, Netherlands 1919: Founds Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Served as President from119-1929 1920: Helps Found the American Civil Liberties Union 1928: Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific Women’s Union in Hawaii

16. 1931-1 st American woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Jane Addams won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist.

17. Dies in a hospital in Chicago Buried in Cedarville, Illinois

18. Discussion Questions Who do you think was the largest influence on Jane Addams? Do you think if Jane Addams did not come from a wealthy family, that she would have accomplished so much? Why or why not?