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Settlement Movement in America

US II | Ms. Burke. Settlement Movement in America. Immigration in the progressive Era. Between 1900 and 1915, more than 15 million immigrants arrived in the US 1910 – 75% of NYC’s population were either immigrations or first generation Americans

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Settlement Movement in America

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  1. US II | Ms. Burke Settlement Movement in America

  2. Immigration in the progressive Era

  3. Between 1900 and 1915, more than 15 million immigrants arrived in the US • 1910 – 75% of NYC’s population were either immigrations or first generation Americans • (first generation : sons/daughters of immigrants) • The countries of origins changed! • Old Immigrants • New Immigrants immigration

  4. Immigration OLD IMMIGRANTS • 1820 – 1870 • ~7.5 million • Northern & Western Europe • Great Britain, Ireland, Western Germany NEW IMMIGRANTS • 1881 – 1920 • ~23.5 million • Southern & Eastern Europe • Austro-Hungary, Italy, Russia

  5. How did the United States react to immigration?

  6. How did the USA address the issues of immigration?

  7. Jane Addams • 9/6/1860 – 5/21/1935 • Pioneer social worker, feminist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, public philosopher, suffrage activist • Her father was good friends with Abraham Lincoln! • He would write letters with “My Dear Double D-ed Addams”

  8. Jane Addams • SUFFRAGE WORK: • Said if women were responsible for cleaning up their communities and making them better places to live – they needed to be able to vote to do that! • She became a role model for middle class women

  9. Jane Addams What history usually says: • Studied medicine but failed out due to ill health • Traveled internationally to write and “find her passion” with a friend – Ellen Starr • Saw a Settlement House in England and wanted to recreate it in US • Asexual What actually happened: • Her family tried to force her to be a debutante • Her family tried to force her to marry her stepbrother • She escaped with the help of her long-term romantic partner – Ellen Starr • Dated wealthy philanthropist Mary Rozet Smith

  10. “an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community” Provided daycare, education, and healthcare Why did the Progressive Era need Settlement Houses? What is a settlement house?

  11. Increased immigration • Tenement life • Disease-ridden • Long work hours • Poverty • Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives Why did the settlement Movement start?

  12. Hull House • Most famous settlement house – located in Chicago, IL • Started by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in 1889 • Focused on providing education and recreational facilities for European immigrant women and children • By 1913, there were 413 houses in 32 states

  13. Hiding Her-Story: The history of Women

  14. Hiding her-story: the history of women • Why is the truth of Jane Addams not known? • What advantages did women in “sentimental friendships” have over heterosexually married women? • What advantages did they have over single women? • “sentimental friendships” • Often romantic relationships between women that are hidden from the outside world • OR they are not hidden at all, and history just ignores them • Addams always requested a single bed when she traveled with Smith, yet they were just considered “roommates” and “friends”

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