Before she was seven years old, Jane Addams recognized that not everyone lives a privileged life as she does. Jane Addams and her father were walking down on the streets near her father’s Mill. The mill was at the poorest neighborhood in the town, Jane Addams saw that the houses were very close together and that they were small houses. Jane Addams father had to explained to her of why some people live in small houses that are close to other houses. That incident opened Jane eyes to a world different

Chapter 1 (12 points) At the beginning of Chapter 1, Jane Addams states that she is going to discuss her childhood because that is the time when “character is formless but nevertheless setting into definite lines of future development.” After reading Chapter 1, choose three incidents from Jane Addams’ childhood which influenced her character development, briefly describe each incident, and tell what character trait resulted from it. • Jane was the youngest child out of her family and the community’s

industrialization came to urban places, it brought many social and economic problems. Jane Addams and Andrew Carnegie were two different people who were around during industrialization and had different responses of the economic and social issues that came with it. "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life," Jane Addams. Industrialization led to factory job that had appalling and hazardous working conditions

Have you ever seen a peaceful protest or something that helped everyone and not just one person? Well, that is what Mahatma Gandhi and Jane Addams did. Mahatma Gandhi peacefully protested against the South Africans and the Indians. Jane Addoms helped everyone by inspiring a building that everyone could meet up in. Mahatma Gandhi peacefully protested for the Indians to be let free from the French. I know this because the passage states that “He also wanted to stop the mistreatment of Indians by the

Jane Addams and her interpretation of the Pullman Strike had large implications on the fields of social work, philosophy, education, and on one man in particular, John Dewey. After founding the Hull House in 1889, she realized that the top down approach to uplift the community of Chicago was not effective. She soon learned that the Hull House would best serve through advocacy. Addams’ belief that “antagonism was always unnecessary” changed Dewey’s perspective forever. It was soon clear that, for

Laura Jane Addams was born September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. She was known prominently for her work as a social reformer, pacifist and feminist during the late 19th and early 2th centuries. The woman was born the eighth of nine childre to an affluent state senator and business man, this led them to live a life of privilege. The children 's father had many important friends including President Abraham Lincoln. In the 1880 's, Laura Addams struggled to find her place in the world. She battled

I, Laura Jane Addams, was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. I lived a very privileged life being that my father was a state senator and businessman. I was the eighth of nine children. As a child I battled many health problems. I suffered tuberculosis of the spine which left me with a curved back. In my mid twenty’s I struggled to find a place in this world. My father was dead and my medical conditions were getting worse. I also had to stay home and care for my sister, Mary, whom

on American society moving forward. Jane Addams In the late 1800s and early 1900s, America saw one of the largest booms in immigration in the history of the nation. Click and drag to move Addams, responding to the needs of immigrant women, opened the "Hull House" in Chicago - which spread to other cities as well. The Hull House was a "Settlement House" which would take you in, teach you a skill (job), and the culture of the American society. Addams wanted to focus on women due to the fact