Dear Aunt Bessie‚ Hello Aunt Bessie‚ I am sorry I have not been writing to you lately. I am having trouble running the mills by myself since my family has died of malaria. Which is why I now know where I will put your million dollars that I have received from you. Progressivism is a tough moment in our history. We are battling progressivism‚ which is a movement reformed to change America. This is why I have chosen to take your blessed million dollars‚ and put it towards these reforms; 600‚000
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“Hull House in the 1890’s” and “Putting on Style” demonstrate and explain two very different yet very important parts of American female history. While “Hull House in the 1890’s” shows the struggles and efforts made by women in order to break down barriers and gain political power in a male dominant political society‚ “Putting on Style” portrays the rebellious and socially changing world of female adolescents. Though “Hull House in the 1890’s” and “Putting on style” come from opposing views of reform
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Progressive DBQ At the start of the 20th century‚ the United States were experiencing many changes in the ways that their economics and politics operated. After the Civil War‚ Restoration‚ and the Gilded Age‚ the Progressive Era was a time the United States could establish the principles of the country and begin to build what America is today‚. With large monopolies running the nation’s economy‚ such as those run by J.P. Morgan‚ Carnegie‚ Rockefeller‚ and Vanderbilt‚ many people sought Reformation
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Urban experiences in Chicago are explained very well throughout the readings from the Hull House articles. They give real world insight to what the time was like back then. The Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and was the most famous Settlement House in the United States. The first section that I chose to read was the “Beginnings of Settlement Life In Chicago” and the area of The Experiment in Chicago. Making the Hull House available to those who were not fortunate
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Immigrant Struggle The American Expectation and Immigrant Response Immigrants often had a difficult and complicated experience when adjusting to life in America. Immigrant families had to find ways to adapt to American society. In some cases immigrants found it necessary to challenge American society. Immigrant ideals were challenged by American values that were pushed on them. Due to these as well as other hardships‚ immigrants from all walks of life living in America had a genuinely arduous task
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I. For many generations it has been believed that the woman’s place is within the walls of her own home. But I am here today to tell you otherwise. I am here to tell you forget what others have told you. America is changing; therefore you must change with it. II. As society grows more complicated it‚ is necessary that woman shall extend their sense of responsibility to many things outside of her own home so she can continue to preserve the home in its entirety. Women are trained in the delicate
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Jane Adams was born on September 6‚ 1860 in Illinois in a town called Cedarville. Her father was a well known business man‚ who had a lot of influence over her. She had eight siblings in which she was the second to last born. In 1926‚ she suffered from a heart attack and seven years later on May 21‚ 1935‚ she passed away. Jane Addams had many accomplishments in her life time‚ and she influenced many people. She founded the Hull House in 1889‚ which was a place to provide services to immigrants and
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Jane Addams was another leader in her community trying to help the lower classes immigrants assimilate to America. Addams was born the 6 of September of 1860 in Cedarville‚ Illinois. Her father‚ John H. Addams‚ was a Quaker owning a flour and sawmill factory. Addams was born into a good family where most of her childhood she spent comfort. Since a child‚ she always had an intuition to help and live among the less fortunate. “On that day I had my first sight of the poverty which implies squalor‚ and
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meats. All of these issues were major during the late 1800s and early 1900s for people in the U.S. Plans and reforms were proposed during the Progressive era to address the problems that were faced by many Americans in the early 1800s late 1900s. Jane Adams built an inexpensive house for poor families to live in named the “Haul House” in Chicago IL. This house was a great help to families. The child labor rate dropped between 1890 and 1920 (Doc3). Women were given their right to vote. Susan B. Anthony
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According to Jane Addams‚ some of the issues that America faced were the rapid growth of industrialization‚ a large class disparity‚ and many individuals who did not know how they would be able to help others. Also‚ when Addams described the subjective necessity‚ she is referring to the reasons why she opened the Hull-House. She cited three different reasons: a desire to interpret democracy in social terms‚ a willingness to help others‚ and the Christian Social Gospel movement. Jane Addams thought
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