Ohs Hughes was a women who lived during the time period before the American Revolution. During this time period, there were many on going issues between the colonists and the Motherland, which was England. Many issues, such as the Stamp act, were in this time period when Hughes wrote a letter about violence caused by Presbyterians. Presbyterians were people who were devoted to the Christian church but were also upset with the acts England had recently passed upon the colonies in the New World. In a letter to a the Lords, Hughes details the current situation in her province stating “The Presbyterians, who are very Numerous in America, and are avowedly, at the head of these Riots” (Hughes, 1766, 1).…
The shelves White House Library are filled with volumes and novels ranging from historical novels to in-depth biographies. The question arises, however, of how such a vast collection of literature came to be. The existence 0of this library can be attributed to Abigail Powers Fillmore, First Lady of the United States from 1850 to 1853. Through her passion for knowledge, Fillmore became a quiet but strong figure both in and out of the White House.…
Susan B. Anthony established the NWSA, the main goal was to persuade Americans and the government that women should get the right to vote. Both individuals took action for the problems they wanted to change, both were…
An early leader in social reform in the United States, Jane Addams was a remarkable woman who advanced the welfare of working class adults and children by providing practical opportunities and political advocacy. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860 Addams founded the world famous social settlement “Hull House”. She then lived and worked from the home in 1889 until her death in 1935. Adams was an encouraging women famous for writings, settlement work and international efforts for world peace. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 fours before her death.…
All of these reforms impacted our nation in immense ways. Her Settlement House reform helped immigrants have a better place to live. Jane Addams founded the Hull House, in Chicago, Illinois with associate Ellen Gates Starr, where many European immigrants had gone to improve their lives. It had better housing and sanitation and it provided education for people. This led to her strengthening social progress because this helped people support her.…
Martha Ballard; previously Martha Moore, was thought to be a highly depended on midwife and healer in her town of Hallowell, Maine. She dedicated the majority of her life to serving those around her, helping care for any aches, pains, and ailments her friends and family suffered with. Her community greatly depended on her for her knowledge and abilities to manufacture remedies and early medicines. The best evidence of the practical side of Martha’s education came from the diary itself. She documented her day to day activities and thankfully left behind a view into the world of a woman living during the eighteenth century.…
Progressive reformer Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860. She was raised in a prosperous family, although her mother passed away when she was young, her father was a very successful man, he worked as a banker, landowner, and an Illinois state senator from 1854 to 1870. Jane was very deeply inspired by her father, who believed in philanthropy. She contributed to the Progressive Era, when she became an activist for the poor, and founded the most famous settlement house, called the Hull House. She was the voice for reform, leading many reform groups.…
Lugenia Burns Hope was a twentieth-century civil rights activist and social reformer who worked steadfastly to rebuild black communities using grassroots politics and community ties. Hope was no stranger to hard work. From an early age, Hope worked full time at organizations like Hull House— a settlement organization founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr dedicated to providing European Immigrants with amenities such as daycare services, libraries, employment and education. Her infectious fervor, innovative thinking and strong leadership skills advanced the field of social work and contributed greatly to racial and gender equality.…
An Analysis of Historical Divides: Jane Addams and Mary Richmond As a founder of social work, Jane Addams embraced social and economic rights in addition to social change for everyone (Anders, & da Silveira Nunes Dinis, 2015). Her work through Hull-House revealed her collaboration of culture, social, and political functions (Anders, & da Silveira Nunes Dinis, 2015). As an example, she was an advocate for women issues, believed in the removal of racisms and sexism globally, assisted with the provision of food distribution, jobs, and education through social justice (Anders, & da Silveira Nunes Dinis, 2015). Clearly, we see a demonstration of Addams being consistent with the macro practitioner with community interventions inclusive of management,…
When Addams lived in Hull House, she observed other issues that needed to be addressed by reforming city and state laws. Several laws she helped sponsor, included the abolishment of child labor, establishment of juvenile courts, putting limits on working women's hours, recognizing labor unions, making school attendance mandatory, and making safe working conditions for factory workers. In 1906, Jane was in the National American Women's Suffrage Association and fought for the right of women and Black people to vote. These were significant improvements Jane Addams made which contributed to social reform in our country at that time ("Jane…
Women were involved in many organizations, fought for education, and took part in the war effort to help advance their cause. As a way to combat the pressures to stay dependent on men and weaker in status, women started to organize themselves. The organizations worked to educate, liberate, and rally women together for a common cause whether it was prohibition, fundraising or the right to vote. The biggest examples of this was through suffrage, the person’s case and the good deeds and fundraising the groups achieved.…
She established the Hull house, which allowed middle class women to live in settlement houses in poor neighborhoods to provide examples for poor and immigrant women. In 1874 a new organization known as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was formed and became the largest women’s organization in the country that only allowed female members. The association was focused on controlling alcohol consumption, because they believed that the women and children were the ones that suffered the most when men drank too much. They began to branch out in order to attract more women by looking into the areas of prostitution, health, and international peace.…
As Jane Addams wrote this source on “Why women should vote, 1915”, she directed an issue that women faced during the early twentieth century, known as woman suffrage. In this historical document, Jane Addams explained the importance of a woman’s right to vote. First, she makes a claim that for all centuries it’s evident that a woman’s role is to take care of everything pertaining to her home, including her family. However, Addams explained that women (in general) cannot fully maintain their role if they’re not handling business outside of their homes. For instance, she illustrated events that have taken place in Chicago, Italy, and other countries that stated the importance of a woman’s need to vote in society (Modern History Sourcebook: Jane…
Jane Addams was a Progressive reformer who helped women gain the right to vote and founded the Hull House. Carrie Chapman Catt was a Progressive reformer who was for women’s suffrage because she was president of the National American Women’s Suffrage association. Ida Tarbell was a Progressive reformer who exposed the evils of the Standard Oil Company in her great book A History of the Standard oil Company, which exposed the cruel ways of the Standard Oil Company and woyuld eventually lead to the Standard Oil Company’s break-up. Rockefeller, inresponse to the good thing that she did, acted as an evil wizard and kicked Ida Tarbell out of business. It was because of the evilness and ignorance of the robber barrons, the people who owned businesses during both the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era who got what they wanted very unethically,that living conditions around the time of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era were very awful, which caused the low fertility rates for women to not be able to have kids and families and good husbands, and the low survival rates of people arund this time, and the awful living conditions of the tenement…
Introduction: Summary: Margaret Fuller, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century argues that humanity will only become suited for the beauty of the world and heaven when “freedom for Woman as much as for Man shall be acknowledged as a right, not yielded as a concession”. The essay begins to show a claim, counter-claim, and refutation format and through this, Fuller argues that women should be equal. Fuller begins her essay with explaining how deeply embedded this idea that women are inferior to men by giving an example of a common phrase of time. She explains how these is not only unfair but also unreasonable because why would a God, who is perfect, create inferior beings and give them less intellectual gifts. This alleged lack of reason…