Settlement movement

Before and during the settlement house movement, conditions in the city slums were horrific. Sanitation was deplorable, most waste, human and otherwise, was thrown into the street and people lived in tenement houses where if one was lucky, their family got an entire room. People’s working conditions were not much better, they worked with heavy machinery in factories from dawn till dusk, averaging 14 hour days throughout the year and still didn’t make enough to properly support their family. Urban conditions were crowded, unhealthy, and dank, and yet still thousands of immigrants were drawn to them. This provided ample opportunity for philanthropy to help fill in the gaps in education, sanitation, and legislation. The two most important examples…

The woman reformers had mainly one big adversary, they were men, especially white men. Not only did they enjoy bars, so they didn’t agree with the Temperance movement, but they didn’t think women should be paid as well as men and they didn’t care if women had shitty working conditions or long days. As the book states, “one workingwoman confided, ‘The men think that the girls should not get as good work as the men and should not make half as much money as a man.’” (621-2) The Irish, Italians, and…

Lutheran Settlement House is really the only social service agency within the community. It has been providing services to Fishtown and the Philadelphia area since 1902. The services since then may have changed but it’s core mission of “empowering individuals, families, and communities to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency through an integrated program of social, educational, and advocacy services” has not ("History | Lutheran Settlement House | Empowering Children, Adults, Families, and…

became more active outside of the home and wanted to be more involved. In 1890 the National Consumers’ League was founded in New York and went on to become national in 1899. This organization was put into place to provide protective legislation for women and children. Consequently, occurring during this year was the opening of the Settlement House Movement in Chicago, which was created by Jane Addams. She established the Hull house, which allowed middle class women to live in settlement houses…

(1) What do you think about the "settlement" movement? What might be some of its strong points? What might be some of the drawbacks? The settlement was “a social experiment in which young university men of Addams’s class were trying to bridge the widening gap between social classes by going to live among the poor” (67). I think that the settlement movement was a great way to actually understand the gap between social classes. Instead of the students observing from a distance, they decided to…

In her speech, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” describes that young people have no way to change the social maladjustment in society. As Christians, the workers have a genuine desire to help the poor (Presentation,10/5). The actions and activities held at the house benefitted Addams and her colleagues. Her colleagues, Alzina Stevens and Florence Kelley benefited from the settlement house in certain career fields. Alzina Stevens became the first probation officer of the Juvenile…

Early Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die? English royalty and noblemen were very optimistic after they heavily funded the Jamestown expedition with the belief that the settlement would be a strong foundation towards the goal of colonizing the fertile lands of the Eastern Americas. Accomplishing such a daunting task meant the country potentially could have an abundant population to spread Christianity towards, discover new riches as the Spanish previously had done, and maybe uncover the…

Many people came to the New World looking for new possibilities, freedom, and a place to settle and become an established, respectable land. Starting in the early 1600’s, the Virginia Company wanted a settlement in America. The Chesapeake colonies, including Virginia and Maryland first established the town of Jamestown. “Jamestown was intended to become the core of a long-term settlement effort, creating new wealth for the London investors and recreating English society in North America”…

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terrain helped farmers across the colony produce enough material to sustain themselves and the ability to trade with England, and the New England colony saw more independence from Britain than other colonies. One of the reasons for the Puritans’ success in England is because they were able to bring family members to the colony and they ventured with members of their former community. The ability to bring family members to the colony meant that women could take a larger role in society…