In both Addams and Riis’s reading they each discuss poor immigrant neighborhood, were many lived in unsanitary and overcrowded homes or had exploitive and unfair working conditions. Adams and Riis both try to better this condition for those poor immigrant arrivals to the country in urban cities. Riis’s theory describes the impact of health and the development of character because of poor housing condition that affected people health and way of acting. Riis’s theory supports McCoy article on “Freddie

Jane Addams was a fifth generation American, her mother’s roots ran back to a German immigrant who arrived in Philadelphia in 1727. John Huy Addams, her father at the age of 22, moved with his wife to Northern Illinois. Jane Addams birth in Cedarville September 6, 1860 came at one of the tensest periods of American history. Jane’s childhood was filled with men risking their lives in the duty of what they believed to be right. After an mundane education in the village school in Cedarville, Jane Addams

Jane Addams was a International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sociologist. She won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist. Jane Addams was critical of the peace treaty that was forced on Germany in 1919, maintaining that it was so humiliating that it would lead to a German war of revenge. At the end of her life, Jane Addams was honored by the American government

women include Jane Addams, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and Harriet Tubman. Each of these women come from extremely different backgrounds and participated in history in very different ways. However, the one thing they all have in common is that the contributions that they each made to society changed their lives and the lives of many people around them and in the future. Jane Addams was born in 1860 in Illinois (Elshtain). He father was politically active and

industrialization created. Progressive era reformers in the late 19th to the early 20th century believed in constructing a new order to improve American welfare. During the progressive movement many progressives such as Robert F. La Follete and Jane Addams sought to generate reform for fairness and to enhance moral values. As a civic duty, progressives such as W.E.B Du Bois fought against the racial injustice in America as well as establish a new order to create a more virtuous society. As the movement

Jane Addams lived from 1860-1935. In the time era she lived in, civil rights was a major conflict. Sexism and racism was common in the 1800’s and Addams was an activist who was in favor of equal rights. In a time when females weren’t treated equally she tried to make it fair for all and she made a name for herself in the process. Jane went to a women’s medical college in Philadelphia only because she was “wealthy and privileged”. At that time in her life she had gotten ill and dropped out but continued

Jane Addams was a civil rights activists during the first part of the twentieth century in the United States. She alongside a friend named Ellen Gates Starr opened a community home in Chicago. The mission of the Hull-House was to provide housing and job opportunities for the poor and immigrants in Chicago. We see this when Jane Addams says, “I cannot see them without a bitter unconsciousness that it was at their expense

suffrage as well as for the rights for those in need was different for the time. Furthermore, Addams believed that it was necessary for women to be working because a young girl "is besotted with innocent little ambitions and does not understand this apparent waste of herself… if no work is provided for her" (Addams, 5). Addams' work to help others was much different than Ida B. Wells' work in the sense that Addams was able to protest and do the work because of her white privilege. The United States that