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    Rockford Female Seminary in Illinois in 1881 and attended medical school. At the age of twenty-seven, Addams and her close friend Ellen G. Starr visited a settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in London. This visit helped to finalize Jane’s idea of helping the poor area of Chicago. Specifically, her path was settled as indicated, “On one trip with friend Ellen Gates Starr, the 27-year-old Addams visited the famed Toynbee Hall in London, England, a special facility

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    Jane Addams and her colleague, Ellen Gates Starr, founded the most successful settlement house in the United States otherwise known as the Hull-House (“Settlement” 1). It was located in a city overrun by poverty, filth and gangsters, and it could not have come at a better time (Lundblad 663). The main purpose of settlement houses was to ease the transition into the American culture and labor force, and The Hull-House offered its residents an opportunity to help the community, was a safe haven for

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    the Hull House have a positive impact on people and America? It helped create new laws, teach immigrants important skills, improved education, and inspired others to fight for what is right. To begin, in 1888, Jane Addams and her good friend Ellen Gates Starr went on a trip to visit a settlement house in London called Toynbee Hall. Toynbee Hall had many, many activities that people were able to participate in.

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    Protestant, middle-class women. However, Jane could not fit into even those broad categories. She was constantly asked to declare her faith and pressured to become a foreign missionary. But Jane never could accept Christ’s divinity. Writing to Ellen Gates Starr, a religious friend she met at Rockford and a lifelong friend, she said of Jesus, "I think of him simply as a Jew living hundreds of years ago, surrounding whom there is a mystery (and) a beauty incomprehensible to me. I feel a little as I do

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    By starting the tenement houses in Chicago through the Hull Houses, Jane Addams and Ellen Starr had already begun their journey into the public sphere. Through opening the tenement houses and allowing people to see them and come live in them helped the two women make a name for themselves, with the more well-known woman of the pair being recognized

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    Civil rights demonstrates that all people, no matter what race, religion, color or class, are equal and have equal rights. Although the civil rights time period is a subject that is not talked about much today, it was years ago when there was a lot of segregation and discrimination. There were many African Americans who made a difference in their fight for civil rights, but not many white people tried to make that same difference. Jane Addams was one of the few white people who made this effort;

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    the Hull House have a positive impact on people and America? It helped create new laws, teach immigrants important skills, improved education, and inspired others to fight for what is right. To begin, in 1888, Jane Addams and her good friend Ellen Gates Starr went on a trip to visit a settlement house in London called Toynbee Hall. Toynbee Hall had many, many activities that people were able to participate in. Additionally, it was located in one

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    How did the Hull House have a positive impact on people and America? It helped create new laws, teach immigrants important skills, improved education, and inspired others to fight for what is right. In 1888, Jane Addams and her good friend Ellen Gates Starr went on a trip to visit a settlement house in London called Toynbee Hall. Toynbee Hall had many, many activities that people were able to participate in. Additionally, it was located in one of the

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    ‘To have quality work is harder than what most would think. Questions about ‘Why can we not just pay the people ? Or try to let other people work ? ‘It seems easy to do but is harder to carry out, we need to have people who stand up against Labor( Sweatshops) and that is what Jane Addams did. Jane Addams started off by opening hull house she was letting in European people in who had nowhere to go and no money. She stood up for not letting children labor all day long for work they shouldn't do, and

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    immigrants in need. These settlement houses also became meeting spots where reformers and intellectuals of all kinds could discuss various problems in society. The most well-known settlement house was created by Jane Addams and her good friend, Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House, which was named after Mr. Hull, was located in Chicago's Nineteenth Ward. It housed immigrants with diverse nationalities such as Italians, Bohemians, Irish, English, Germans, Americans, Canadians, and Russians. As a result,

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