How did the settlement house movement try to improve life in the cities in the late nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Settlement houses were formed in poor districts of cities, such as Chicago’s Hull House founded by Jane Addams in 1889.
2. The young, idealistic, and mostly middle-class social workers in settlement houses wanted to bridge the socioeconomic gap between rich and poor by bringing education, culture, and hope to the slums.
3. Hull House stressed education, offering classes in elementary English and Shakespeare, lectures on ethics, the history of art, and American history and courses in cooking, sewing, and manual skills.
4. Hull House provided an infant-welfare clinic and free medical dispensary, showers, a bathhouse, and a reading room.
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