Nothing produces greater distress, many reformers believe, than the crowded immigrant neighborhoods of American cities. One response is to create settlement houses like Hull House which Jane Addams and a group of women open in Chicago in 1889. Using family money and contributions from local businesses, they purchase a house in the middle of an immigrant neighborhood, move in and begin educating people in childcare, literacy, and other aspects of western civilization. Such social work is often an outlet for unmarried, university-educated women who cannot get professional degrees. By becoming politically active, they begin to exercise the democratic involvement to which they feel entitled.

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U. S. cities, crowded immigrant neighborhoods, settlement houses, Hull House, Jane Addams, educational programs, university-educated women, alternative to marriage, alternative to profession, Rise of Progressivism in the United States, The

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