Chapter 5 (20 points) After deciding to carry out her plan, Jane Addams and Miss Starr went to Chicago, looking for a neighborhood to established Hull House using their own limited resources. They went out and advertised their plans to others with the goal to educate them about their reason of establishing a Settlement home. Many talked about the Settlement house, there were even a review done in the Evening Journal about it. Many people criticized the plan however some even praised the plan of the settlement house. One of Jane Addams and Miss. Starr biggest critics was renowned scholar gentlemen named Thomas Davidson, he thought the idea of the Settlement house as strange effort to comprehend the lives of poor people through accommodating …show more content…
One of the services was unemployment services. Unemployment services gave the women the opportunity earn income sewing and the men the same opportunity buy sweeping the street. The opportunity for the men to income by street cleaning gave Jane Addams a view and lesson about economic. For one winter Jane Addams had many valuable lessons, one of the lessons she learned involved a shipping clerk who came to the Hull-House four or five times to earn some income for his family. Jane Addams suggested that he obtain employment at an outside job, the man was reluctant because he always work indoor and not outdoor. Following Jane Addams advice, he obtain the outdoor job but died a week later because of pneumonia. Another lesson Jane Addams learned was that poor people are very kind towards one and another. Her live at the Hull-House was very eventful, Jane Addams met may people with different characters and different needs. Needs such as finding supports for deserted women, insurance for bewildered windows. The Settlement house was known as the neighborhood protector. The place people go to when they needed help and support with jobs, families, children and