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In 1889, Jane Addams, a social reformer in Chicago, Illinois, founded a settlement house called Hull House, which provided child care, kindergarten, libraries, playgrounds, vocational and domestic training, and food services to poor city residents. It also sent visiting nurses to help care for the sick in Chicago's crowded neighborhoods.
At Hull House, young mothers practiced ways to care for their children--including the daily infant bath, which is illustrated in the photograph above. English-language classes, civic rights classes, and art classes were also offered. The settlement houses provided important services to the poor at a time when government and many churches did not provide them.
Many of the people who worked at the settlement houses also worked to outlaw sweatshop working conditions, to promote organized labor, and to secure workers' compensation laws.
Adapted from Winthrop D. Jordan, Miriam Greenblatt, and John S. Bowes, The Americans:
A History (Evanston, Ill.: McDougal, Littell & Company, 1994), 497.
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The work of Jane Addams's Hull House is most similar to which institution operating in the United States today?
- adult prisons
- local community centers
- international airports
- travel agencies
- private country clubs