Where did Jane Addams live?

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1. Where did Jane Addams live?
2. Who was Jane Addams name and describe the settlement house she opened include details of who the settlement house served and what services it offered finally describe how Addams and her staff of volunteers were an important part in worker reforms?
3. Does Hull House still exist?
4. Where did immigrants stay when they came to America?
5. What challenges did immigrants face upon arrival in America?
6. Where did most immigrants settle in the late 1800s?
7. What 2 major immigrant groups came to the United States from 1820 1860?
8. Why do people migrate to the US?
9. Where did most immigrants come from in the 1990s?

Where did Jane Addams live?

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Who was Jane Addams name and describe the settlement house she opened include details of who the settlement house served and what services it offered finally describe how Addams and her staff of volunteers were an important part in worker reforms?

Answers should include, but not limited to, most of the following details: Jane Addams wanted to help the poor. She moved to Chicago and opened a settlement house for the poor, called the Hull House. She recruited many volunteers. The Hull House offered many services to the poor.

Does Hull House still exist?

Hull-House exists today as a social service agency, with locations around the city of Chicago. The University of Illinois at Chicago has preserved a small part of the buildings as a museum, after the University razed many of the original buildings of Hull-House.

Where did immigrants stay when they came to America?

Because most immigrants were poor when they arrived, they often lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where rents for the crowded apartment buildings, called tenements, were low. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is in a building that used to be a tenement and it tells the story of immigrants in the City.

What challenges did immigrants face upon arrival in America?

The German, Irish and Italian immigrants who arrived in America during the 1800s often faced prejudice and mistrust. Many had to overcome language barriers. Others discovered that the challenges they had fled from, such as poverty or religious persecution, were to be encountered in America as well.

Where did most immigrants settle in the late 1800s?

More than 70 percent of all immigrants, however, entered through New York City, which came to be known as the "Golden Door." Throughout the late 1800s, most immigrants arriving in New York entered at the Castle Garden depot near the tip of Manhattan.

What 2 major immigrant groups came to the United States from 1820 1860?

Overview

• From the 1820s to the 1840s, Germans and Irish were the two largest groups of immigrants to the United States.
• The Germans and Irish were frequently subjected to anti-foreign prejudice and discrimination.

Why do people migrate to the US?

Pull Factors: Factors that attract migrants to move, including the attraction of higher wages, job opportunities, and political or religious liberty. Uneven Development: Disparities in income, standards of living, and the availability of jobs within and across societies.

Where did most immigrants come from in the 1990s?

The U.S. immigrant population grew rapidly during the 1990s, with growth rates especially high across a wide band of states in the Southeast, Midwest, and Rocky Mountain regions. In many of these states, the foreign-born population more than doubled between 1990 and 2000.