The Hull House Jane Addams took a stand by helping poor immigrants and giving them a home and education. In 1889 the Hull House was established. "The dozens of younger children who from the first came to Hull-House were organized into groups which were not quite classes and not quite clubs. The value of these groups consisted almost entirely in arousing a higher imagination and in giving the children the opportunity which they could not have in the crowded schools, for initiative and for independent social relationships"(Addams ch. 5). Addams did a lot for children to get them the education they needed to prosper. She wanted the Hull House to stand for this. Addams wanted people to respect immigrant's traditions. "A new social ethic was needed, she said, to stem social conflict and address the problems of urban life and industrial capitalism" (History.com). This is Addams taking a stand against the mistreatment of immigrants and poor folks. This was the first settlement house in North America, and over time it expanded to ten buildings. The National Conference of Charities and Corrections gained its first female president, Jane Addams, in 1910. Addams later on founded the National Federation of Settlements. During this time she was working on the evolvement of society by pushing equality.
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