Abigail Jane Scott was born on a frontier farm in Illinois. One of twelve children, she endured the Oregon Trail (age 17), as her family moved west, and experienced the seven painful months of great migration, in 1852. Abigail would see illness and death, as the route was unforgiving. Her mother Anne, would die of cholera, and it kindled an anger, as she realized the treatment of women in America. Her father would bring the family to live in Oregon, and Abigail would attend an academy for 5 months.…
1a. Jane Addams and the Hull House- She was an american activist and reformer. The Hull house was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.…
Dorothea Dix was instrumental in prison and asylum reform and while she was not directly affiliated with the women’s suffrage movement, in her progress she was the roots of the larger feminist movement. In the 19th century, there was a social gender shift in regions across the country. For the first time, the upper class women of America had time to become more active in their societies. Although they were still unable to vote, hold office and participate in any political manner, it suddenly became socially justifiable for women to voice their opinion on the oppression in America.…
An early leader in social reform in the United States, Jane Addams was a remarkable woman who advanced the welfare of working class adults and children by providing practical opportunities and political advocacy. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860 Addams founded the world famous social settlement “Hull House”. She then lived and worked from the home in 1889 until her death in 1935. Adams was an encouraging women famous for writings, settlement work and international efforts for world peace. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 fours before her death.…
Progressivism was a movement that started around the late 1800s. It was a social, political and economic reform that responded to the problems that arise from urbanization, immigration and industrialization and some of the goals was to promote moral improvement and protect social welfare. Leaders who took part in the movement felt that the dishonesty and corruption going on threatened the reforms and changes that were needed. To solve the problems faced by mainly the lower class, Jane Addams’ “Twenty Years at Hull House” and Lincoln Steffens’ “Tweed Days in St. Louis” wrote two articles that tried to bring about poverty and change what little rights the working class had. Progressivism began when people wanted to change the brutal system to one that was more…
Being a part of something so inspiring led to women and children receiving better pay in the jobs they had and shorter work hours. This FLORENCE KELLEY 4 movement even helped prevent children from working long hours or even working at all. Being involved in this movement helped improve factory conditions to make others’ work lives easier. The exposure and openness to talk about abolition of slavery, and the women’s rights movement in the United States led to the passing of the nineteenth amendment which guaranteed the rights of women (Carson & Bonk, 1999).…
She believed in the virtue of learning by actions. Jane Addams was a strong voice in the progressive movement that wanted…
This research paper will identify and point out highlights of Jane Addams uncovering an in-depth explanation of the importance of her and also the impact Ms. Addams had on the first third of the twentieth century. Born on the 6th of September, 1860, Jane Addams would win recognition worldwide as a “pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and an internationalist” making her the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize. Jane was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children. Serving sixteen years as a state senator, Jane’s father was a political leader and prosperous miller who also fought in the Civil War as an officer. Mr. Addams had raised all nine children by himself when his wife died after Jane was three.…
She toured New York, Boston and Philadelphia speaking in favor of women’s suffrage rights, but out of all of the speeches she gave she was specially interested in African American women’s rights. In 1896 she was invited as a speaker at the first meeting of the National Association of Colored…
Lugenia Burns Hope was a twentieth-century civil rights activist and social reformer who worked steadfastly to rebuild black communities using grassroots politics and community ties. Hope was no stranger to hard work. From an early age, Hope worked full time at organizations like Hull House— a settlement organization founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr dedicated to providing European Immigrants with amenities such as daycare services, libraries, employment and education. Her infectious fervor, innovative thinking and strong leadership skills advanced the field of social work and contributed greatly to racial and gender equality.…
Women during the Progressive Era of the late 19th century on into the early 20th functioned in separate spheres, which meant that the men went out and worked and the women stayed home. During the 19th century women became more active outside of the home and wanted to be more involved. In 1890 the National Consumers’ League was founded in New York and went on to become national in 1899. This organization was put into place to provide protective legislation for women and children. Consequently, occurring during this year was the opening of the Settlement House Movement in Chicago, which was created by Jane Addams.…
As Jane Addams wrote this source on “Why women should vote, 1915”, she directed an issue that women faced during the early twentieth century, known as woman suffrage. In this historical document, Jane Addams explained the importance of a woman’s right to vote. First, she makes a claim that for all centuries it’s evident that a woman’s role is to take care of everything pertaining to her home, including her family. However, Addams explained that women (in general) cannot fully maintain their role if they’re not handling business outside of their homes. For instance, she illustrated events that have taken place in Chicago, Italy, and other countries that stated the importance of a woman’s need to vote in society (Modern History Sourcebook: Jane…
She held lectures and argued the rights women should be getting. Her speeches diligently focused on how both genders should be equal. No matter how much hate surrounded her and the backlash she faced, there was no way she was going to back down from her stance in the idea. Her activism increased the amount of people to notice and take ideas from her. The life of this individual shows how one idea and one person could result into an everlasting…
Comparison of Three Influential Women 's Rights Authors and Their Pieces Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Virginia Woolf were three female writers who published their opinions on the societal view of women 's rights during the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s. Respectively, a few of their most famed pieces were A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Pride and Prejudice, and A Room Of One 's Own. Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Women contains her personal opinions about women 's rights directed to a politically active revered located nearby herself. Austen 's Pride and Prejudice is a fictional novel centered around a family by the name of the Bennets, and more specifically around the second eldest daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth…
The work of the classical feminists such as, Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ann Oakley have all paved the way for the contemporary feminist movement. Three main aspects in which they all help build in the female gender are Academics, Work and Sexuality. Many classical feminists such as Jane Addams and Harriet Martineau had believed that women should be given academic opportunities. Jane Addams is well known for her social work and empowerment of women in education, she saw education as the foundation for society and lead the way for adult education.…