Hull House

up in a place like this, and she wanted to make changes in the world, so she founded the Hull House. How did the Hull House have a positive impact on people and America? It helped create new laws, teach immigrants important skills, improved education, and inspired others to fight for what is right. To begin, in 1888, Jane Addams and her good friend Ellen Gates Starr went on a trip to visit a settlement house in London called Toynbee Hall. Toynbee Hall had many, many activities that people were able

grew up in a place like this, and she wanted to make changes in the world, so she founded the Hull House. How did the Hull House have a positive impact on people and America? It helped create new laws, teach immigrants important skills, improved education, and inspired others to fight for what is right. In 1888, Jane Addams and her good friend Ellen Gates Starr went on a trip to visit a settlement house in London called Toynbee Hall. Toynbee Hall had many, many activities that people were able to

accomplishments affected the philosophical, sociological, and political thought. Addams was an activist of courage and a thinker of originality. Jane Addams embodied the purest moral standards of society which were best demonstrated by her founding of the Hull-House and her societal contributions, culminating with the winning of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.      Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, the eighth child of a prominent family in the small town of Cedarville, Illinois

what life path she will choose. Consequently, Addams attended and graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in Illinois in 1881 and attended medical school. At the age of twenty-seven, Addams and her close friend Ellen G. Starr visited a settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in London. This visit helped to finalize Jane’s idea of helping the poor area of Chicago. Specifically, her path was settled as indicated, “On one trip with friend Ellen Gates Starr, the 27-year-old Addams visited the famed Toynbee Hall

1889 Jane Addams founded Hull-House, a progressive settlement house in Chicago. Hull-House was based on a European settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in London's East End, which she had visited in 1888. The next year, she leased and moved in a large home built by Charles Hull in Chicago. She publicized Hull-House and her causes by lecturing and writing. In addition to making speeches about the needs of the neighborhood, she published an autobiography 20 Years at Hull-House (1910), which asserted that

this, her mind was focused on starting a settlement house in Chicago. “Chicago seemed the place to look; it had large Italian colonies, and though bluff and grasping, it still remembered the easy democracy of the prairies” (Wise 128). “The once prosperous neighborhood had become home to thousands of European immigrants who had fled their native countries hoping to find a better life in America” (Kittredge 17).      After Addams picked out her house, Starr and herself renovated and decorated it with

we not just pay the people ? Or try to let other people work ? ‘It seems easy to do but is harder to carry out, we need to have people who stand up against Labor( Sweatshops) and that is what Jane Addams did. Jane Addams started off by opening hull house she was letting in European people in who had nowhere to go and no money. She stood up for not letting children labor all day long for work they shouldn't do, and even the women she stood up for not letting them work in sweatshops where they were

The Hull House was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Star after Addams was inspired by Toynbee Hall during a trip to London. Both women were interested in social welfare and reform and decided to start a similar endeavor after the opportunity presented itself when Addams received a free 25 year lease on a mansion from Helen Culver. Culver had been gifted this mansion by her uncle, Charles Hull, due to the the deteriorating neighborhood which is why it was called the Hull House. The location

(20 yr) growing up and, through her adult years when initiating change in the way the government and society assist with the impoverished. Adams established the Hull House with Ellen Gates Star “on the 18th of September, 1889”(20 yr.). This started the movement that is know as the Settlement House Movement. “The purpose of the Hull House as stated in its character was “to provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and

for what she believed in, Jane Addams had an eventful and achievement filled life. After her early life, Addams quickly went on to create the Hull House, a place that “offered academic and vocational classes for children and adults, a nursery to care for working women’s children, and art gallery and studio, a pool, and a library” (Stevenson). The Hull House was a place created to help immigrants and the poor, and to better the community. One of the many purposes of the place was to give everyone the