The Settlement house movement

Settlement House

• A settlement house was a community center that offered services to the poor

• Some of the services offered were nursery services, organizing sports and theater activities for the youth, teaching English, and gaving health care classes

• By 1900 about 100 such centers had opened

Jane Adams

• She was the creator of The Hull House a settlement house in Chicago. (opened 1889)

• She came from a well to do family but had strong feelings about needing to help the poor.

• Jane and her other young female volunteers actually moved into Hull House and the community that their center served.

Compassion for the poor

• Jane Adams was born to a well offfamily. – She did not have to live in the slums of Chicago

along side the poor people she served– Why do YOU think living along side the poor in

Hull House was important?

Hull House Causes

• Jane Adams and the ladies of Hull House Championed many causes that effected the poor

• Some of these causes were– Health Laws– Banning Child Labor– Women's Suffrage (What’s this?)

Did you know?

• Settlement houses were not integrated• African Americans were not served by most

Settlement Houses• African American women set up their own

settlement houses to serve their communities

Religious Organizations

• The Catholic Church provided support for poor Irish, Polish, and Italians– Mother Cabrini a Catholic nun, helped to found

more than 70 hospitals in North and South America

Religious Organizations

• Protestants preached a new Social Gospel which said that the more fortunate have a duty to help societies poor

• Protestants created the Salvation Army in London in 1865. By 1880 it was in the U.S.– The organization supplied food and shelter to the

poor as well as spreading Christian teachings

Jewish Communities

• The Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) was created in Baltimore in 1884. – It promoted social activities, good citizenship and

the preservation of Jewish Culture– In the 1880’s the Young Women’s Hebrew

Association sprung from the YMHA

Why help the poor?

• Religious groups and concerned people like Jane Adams had seen the conditions in which the poor lived

• Jacob Riis captured the predicament of the poor on film as well as in detailed written description

Chapter 2 Section 1 & 2Vocab Review

• Push Factor• Pull Factor• Pogrom• Ethnic Group• Assimilation• Nativist• Emma Lazarus• Angel Island• Chinese Exclusion Act• Urbanization• Tenement

• Building code• Settlement House• Jane Adams• Hull House• Mother Cabrini• Social Gospel• Salvation Army• Young Men's Hebrew

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