1. Jane Addams and Hull House

2. Settlement Houses
First social settlements established in 1880s in London to help with problems caused by urbanization, immigration, and industrialization.
Their “residents” were usually educated and middle- or upper-class, native born, men and women.
The residents settled in poor urban neighborhoods.

3. Hull House
Established in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in Chicago’s Near West Side.
Became a world famous social settlement.
Residents of Hull House included:
-Jane Addams
-Ellen Gates Starr
-Florence Kelley
-Dr. Alice Hamilton
-Julia Lathrop
-Sophonisba Breckenridge
-Grace and Edith Abbott

4. Hull House in 1996

5. Services They Provided
Kindergarten and day care
Employment bureau
Art gallery
Libraries
English and citizenship classes
Theater, music, and art classes
Later, more clubs and activities were added.
Children playing in Hull House
meeting places for trade union groups, and a wide array of cultural events.

6. A LOOK INSIDE

7. The settlement house included: public kitchen a coffee house
a gymnasium
a swimming pool
Coffee house
clubhouse for girls
book bindery
art studio
a library
employment bureau
Library

8. Hull House community consisted of eighteen national groups:
Italian
Greek
Mexican
British
Scandinavian
Polish
German
Russian
Czechoslovakian
French
Lithuanian
Hungarian
Swiss
Rumanian
Yugoslavian
Belgian
Finnish
Dutch

9. A music school was introduced along with a successful theater.
Plays were performed by residents from the neighborhood.
Some plays plots included the importance of women in history.

10. Jane Addams: Organizations
A founder of the Chicago Federation of Settlements (1894) and of the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers (1911).
A leader in the Consumers League
First woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections.
Chair of the Labor Committee of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Vice president of the Campfire Girls
Member of the executive boards of the National Playground Association and the National Child Labor Committee
Supported campaign for woman suffrage and racial equality

11. Jane Addams, cont.
Wrote on topics related to Hull House and spoke nationwide and throughout the world.
Became involved in peace movement in early 20th century.
Helped form the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and was its first president.
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

12. Effects of Jane Addams’ Work
At one point, around 2,000 people visited Hull House each week.
Labor reforms
Better care for the poor
Jane Addams on U.S. postage stamp of 1940

13. Jane Addams' Timeline (1860–1935)
Born in Cedarville, Illinois
Enters Rockford Female Seminary
Founds Hull-House, a social settlement in Chicago, with Ellen Gates
Starr
Helps found Chicago Federation of Settlements
Becomes vice president of National Woman's Trade Union League
Serves as member of Chicago Board of Education
Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People

14. 1910 -- Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House
Attends Conference and Congress of International Woman's
Suffrage Alliance, Budapest, Hungary
Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st Chairman
Founds Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, serves as President
Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific Women's Union in
Hawaii
st American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville,
Illinois

15. Jane Addams' Biography studied medicine for 6 years
discovered Toynbee Hall in London
founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Starr
spoke and wrote widely about settlement work
was a leader in the woman’s suffrage and pacifist movements
believed that women should make their voices heard in legislation and therefore should have the right to vote
first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize

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