1. World History Honors Scrapbook Maisie O’Meara
Jane Addams
World History Honors
Scrapbook
Maisie O’Meara

2. Childhood Born September 6, 1860 Born in Cedarville, Illinois
Second youngest of nine children
Had a congenital spine defect which did not allow her to do much physical activity when she was young
Jane Addams as a child
Spine defect

3. Childhood Father was a well-off local political leader
Mother died when she was two years old
Father remarried
Stepmother brought two step-siblings to the family
Very devoted to father
Jane’s father
Jane’s father and stepmother

4. Education Attended Rockford Female Seminary
Developed strong leadership skills
Graduated in 1881
Valedictorian of a class of seventeen
Jane as a student

5. Education
Received bachelor’s degree the next year when school became Rockford College for Women
Father encouraged her to pursue higher education
Began to study medicine
Medical Symbol
Younger Jane Addams

6. Problems as a Young Woman
Parents thought she had enough education and were afraid she would never get married
Parents took Jane and her friends on a tour throughout Europe for almost two years
Became very ill during this trip
Europe

7. Problems as a Young Woman
Father died when she returned from trip
Became very depressed and even more ill
Could not walk or move without pain
Had surgery to fix curvature of her spine
Was put into a back harness for a year after surgery and could not move
Jane depressed
Curvature of the spine

8. Work After recovering from surgery, she went back to Europe
Went sightseeing with friends
Introduced to works of Toynbee Hall- house for slums in London when she was 27 years old
↕ Toynbee Hall

9. Work
This encouraged Jane and friend Ellen G. Starr to create similar house in Chicago
1889- Jane and Ellen leased a house from Charles Hull
Two young women moved in with a purpose to create a center that would help people in need
House leased from Charles Hull
Ellen G. Starr

10. Hull House Jane and Ellen gave speeches about their purpose
Raised money to develop house
Convinced women to help
Hull House
Hull House help

11. Hull House Cared for children Cared for the sick
By second year, Hull House was helping 2,000 people every week
Nursery
Children at the Hull House

12. A Day at the Hull House Morning Afternoon Evening Kindergarten classes
Club meetings for older children
Evening
More clubs for adults
Night class for adults
Club meeting
Class at the Hull House

13. Developments to the Hull House
Art Gallery
Public Kitchen
Coffee House
Gymnasium
Swimming Pool
Boarding Club for Girls
Coffee House
Wrestlers in the gymnasium

14. Developments to the Hull House
Book Bindery
Art Studio
Musical School
Drama Group
Library
Employment Bureau
Labor Museum
Library
Musical School

15. More Work Worked to End poverty Improve labor conditions
Examined child labor laws, factory inspection system, and the juvenile justice system
Protect immigrants from exploitation
Limit working hours for women
Make school for children mandatory
Improve industrial safety
Child labor
Women labor

16. More Work
1911- Became first vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
1912- Campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party
Wrote a few books
Twenty Years at Hull House
Autobiography
Great success
Newer Idols of Peace
Peace and Bread in Time of War
National American Women Suffrage Association
Twenty Years at Hull House

17. Accomplishments
1905- Appointed to Chicago’s Board of Education and made chairman of the School Management Committee
1909- Became first woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections
1910- Was given the first honorary degree ever given to a woman from Yale University
Jane Addams

18. Accomplishments 1915- Accepted chairmanship of the Women’s Peace Party
President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom until 1929
1931- Nobel Peace Prize
Women’s Peace Party
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

19. Last Years Had a heart attack in 1936 and never fully recovered
Died May 21, three days after doctors discovered she had cancer
Funeral took place in the Hull House courtyard
Jane Addams’s funeral
Jane Addams’s burial site

20. Legacy Remembered as first social worker Strong feminist
One of the most famous woman activists in the United States
Jane Addams Hull House Association- organization that has established several social service centers in Chicago today

21. “Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.” - Jane Addams