Jane Addams School for Democracy

The progressive movement in the United States was one of the most successful political movements in the country’s history, starting reform movements throughout the nation. Beginning in the 19th century, the Progressive movement looked to make changes to some of the issues within the country, such as monopolies and the issues within the urban movement, like poverty and drunkenness. The progressive movement was typically made up of intellectuals, muckrakers, and middle class women. The movement…

Jane Addams Brought Change to America Without a Corporation Behind Her. In today’s modern society, where money controls most of the things one does, it’s hard to imagine a way to change a large group of people’s life without having a substantial amount of money to start off with. This is why charities advocate so much for donations, pledges, and other means of gathering money. Jane Addams, while she did have family money, was one of the few people who was able to change a large number of lives…

Jane Addams and Frances Perkins have always been my idols. Growing up in the 21st century, where people have fought for rights they should have never been denied, it’s tough not to have a role model that advocated for the right things. To me, social well-being is important. Thriving communities have people that have implemented programs to assist the community in ways that reveal success for its individuals. Jane Addams was said person to the community of Chicago, Illinois. Jane Addams was…

Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams modeled a method in social work that existed in contrast to the Charitable Organization Societies (COS). Addams chose to live among the disadvantaged and immigrant populations, seeking a reciprocal relationship that would encourage a symbiotic existence between social classes (p. 59). Where Hull House did not attempt to decide the fate of the poor, COS existed solely to facilitate “friendly visitors” to enter the homes of the poor and use the data they…

According to The Editors of Encyclopedia, Jane Addams was an American Social reformer and pacifist (Encyclopedia, 2017). She was brave. She took a stand for what she felt was right. She stood for social justice, education, equality and more. Jane Addams was also a cowinner of the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1931. “Jane Addams was the one of the most distinguished college-educated women of the first generation” (Jane Addams, 2010). She also won worldwide recognition in the first third of the…

Most immigrants that came during this time had come from Northern and Western Europe and had some experience with representation democracy. With the exception of the Irish, most were protestant. Many were literate, and some possessed a fair degree of wealth. Old Immigrant were able to fit in because of their similar background, religion, and traditions. New immigrants came from Southern…

fight for equal freedom occurred in the mist of the Cold War. The Brown vs. Board of Ed case is arguably one of the most famous civil rights cases. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of nine African Americans tells who tried to enroll into an Arkansas school but were prevented by the Sates governor. This case was crucial in the civil rights movement of the time and gave African Americans finally the access to the same free education that white people…

Hawaiian political, cultural, and religious life. Even today, there are many Americans working at overseas missionaries. United States also help other nations with assistance. For example, United States sent assistances to Cuba to help organize schools and improve sanitary conditions. In 1900, Dr.Walter Reed, a U.S army physician, found that the source of yellow fever was mosquitoes. Reed helped find an effective way to control the disease that help saved many lives of Cubans and other tropical…

The democracy that the forefathers created was a democracy intended for white landed men, but the end of the Civil War catalyzed a series of changes that created a society which better represented its diversity. While civil rights and suffrage have been legally extended to new groups, many of these groups continue to experience discrimination culturally and economically, especially in areas like immigration. Further, new inequalities have emerged with the recent increased visibility of groups…

indispensably terrible. The capitalism inevitably created class conflict and social inequality between labors and capitals. On that account, during the progressive era, reformers began to pay attention to social inequality and class conflict. Taking Addams as an example, solving the class problem became the preoccupation of her generation. They looked unflinchingly at the social inequality which surrounded them and conditions that thwarted individuals opportunities, and also devised methods and…