Hull House : A Settlement House

Addams toured in Europe in 1883 and was impressed by Toynbee Hall, which was a charity workers’ residence situated deep in a London slum. When Addams returned to Chicago in 1889, they purchased and refurnished Charles J. Hull’s mansion and opened the Hull House, in a settlement approach.

Jane went to Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia in the fall of 1882. Later in the 1880’s Jane traveled to Europe where she visited a settlement house by the name of Toynbee Hall. Settlement houses were the country’s way of providing community services to the poor. Addams and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, the Hull House in the lower income section of Chicago in 1889. Most of the residents who lived there were from countries such as Italy, Russia, Poland, Germany, Ireland, and Greece. Hull House provided a day care center for children of working mothers, a community kitchen, and visiting nurses. Addams and her staff gave classes in English literacy, art, and other subjects. Hull House also became a meeting place for clubs and labor unions. Most of the people who worked with Addams in Hull House were well educated, middle-class women. Hull House gave them an opportunity to use their education and it provided a training ground for careers in social work.

Although Addams has done many impeccable things, one of her most distinguishable actions was co-founding Hull House with her friend Ellen Gates Starr in 1889. Hull House is a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, inspired by the Toynbee Hall she visited in England. Opening Hull House, Addams expected the settlement to be a place where the poor could attend cultural programs, such as art, however her ideas changed as she explored the city and got to know her neighbors. While walking down the streets of Chicago, the reformer noticed all the poor immigrants residing in the cramped and dirty tenements, which led to her newfound passion to help

Jane Addams and her colleague, Ellen Gates Starr, founded the most successful settlement house in the United States otherwise known as the Hull-House (“Settlement” 1). It was located in a city overrun by poverty, filth and gangsters, and it could not have come at a better time (Lundblad 663). The main purpose of settlement houses was to ease the transition into the American culture and labor force, and The Hull-House offered its residents an opportunity to help the community, was a safe haven for the city, and led the way through social reform for women and children.

In the nineteenth century, families of all different kinds of races resided in tenements. The tenements I will be writing about are located on 96 Orchard Street in the lower east side of New York City. Every room tells a remarkable story of the lives

Another goal of theirs was to improve city life. The Hull House wasn’t just a place where immigrants could participate in programs and learn, but it was a place where they were able to feel safe and get the support and assistance they needed to live a normal life in the large city of Chicago.

During the Progressive Era, settlement houses were opened to provide social and educational services to the immigrants in need. These settlement houses also became meeting spots where reformers and intellectuals of all kinds could discuss various problems in society. The most well-known settlement house was created by Jane Addams and her good friend, Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House, which was named after Mr. Hull, was located in Chicago's Nineteenth Ward. It housed immigrants with diverse nationalities such as Italians, Bohemians, Irish, English, Germans, Americans, Canadians, and Russians. As a result, the new immigrants coming in sought neighbors of their own language and beliefs.

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The first explorers of modern-day South Carolina were the Spanish. The first successful settlement made there by the was led by Lucas Vazquez de Ayllón, but there settlement did not last because of the bad weather, shortage of food and hostility of the natives. Later on in 1292 King Charles I gave Sir Robert Heath grant to settle in the area below the Virginia colony. Although his attempt to settle was not successful it sparked the British’s interest in the area. The attempt was later renewed in 1663 by King Charles II who awarded Eight loyal supporters a charter to start a colony in Carolina, these men were given the title Lord Proprietors. Their colony was succesfull but relied on their relationship with the natives.

Originally, only an abandoned residence rented by the two friends, it eventually grew to encompass a city block with a playground and a campground. It was established as a way to help the immigrants within the area and started out as a kindergarten, later including a day nursery, and an infancy care center. Until finally, it came to offer secondary and college level education as well as night classes. The Hull House also offered cooking and sewing classes as well as classes in manual skills. It also included a clinic and medical dispensary.

After being very one of few women to graduate from a college she struggled to find her role in society. Addams searching for her role in society, she did some soul searching and went on a trip with friend Ellen Gates Starr (social reformer and activist). On the trip to London, England they visited Toynbee Hall, a facility established to help the struggling families of the area. Addams and Starr were so fascinated on the way people of the Toynbee hall were helping the people in this institution. This is where Addams got the idea of making a settlement house that would help people in need of basic needs such as food, water, and shelter. Addams and Starr were set to establish one of these types of institutions in Chicago. In 1889 Addams and Starr both co-founded the Chicago Hull House. At this institution services were provided for immigrants and struggling families of the Chicago

For the most part, the settlers who settle in the Massachusetts Bay were called the Puritans and they were more religious conscience than most of the settlers. In the text, we learned that in “1623 the Council of New England granted land to the Dorchester Company to plant a colony of fishermen in what is now Massachusetts (Reich, 2011, p. 71). Initially, the plan fail and the settlers left, but the some remained and founded the town name Salem (Reich, 2011, p. 71). Eventually, politics played a major role as they were issued a new charter from Charles I and changing the name to the New England Company and granting it the right to govern the territory under its jurisdiction (Reich, 2011, p. 71). Unfortunately, religion was a key to the success of the new settlement. Even though, Charles I claim to be in

Although the mainstream settlement house movement was nondenominational and abstained from proselytizing, many religious organizations were responsible for establishing settlements, including the Roman Catholic Church, the YWCA, and the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In response to black migrations from the South to the northern industrial centers, African-American churches founded settlement houses to provide social services to newly arrived black migrants. In Chicago, for example, Reverend Reverdy Ransom founded the African Methodist Episcopal Institutional Church to provide employment, education, and welfare services to black migrants.

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The first major settlement of the Doukhobors was located in an area known as Taurida in southern Ukraine. Their colonies were situated along the banks of the Molochnaya River, which eventually flows into the Sea of Azov. The nearby river caused the surrounding land to be rich and fertile, perfect to support the farming lifestyle of the Doukhobors. Along with this idyllic landscape, the sponsorship and support of the then Tsar of Russia made initial life in Taurida ideal. Tsar Alexander I reigned from 1801-1825, spanning much of the Doukhobors’ tenancy in Taurida before their eventual exile in the mid-nineteenth century. Alexander was influenced by the liberal values of the Enlightenment, and worked to normalize religious and minority tolerance