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Jane Addams was primarily the founder of the Hull House settlement home in the West Side slums of Chicago. She was a reformist and feminist that sought to better the country. Jane Addams was a woman who obtained a college education and wanted ....

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... on the many social problems at that time. During her travels to Europe, it was there where she first encountered the idea of a settlement house. Addams invented the Hull House as a center for a higher civic and social life that would improve the many social problems. She and many others with the same interests as her, worked among the poor, established art classes, discussion groups, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a library, and a gymnasium. She tried to invent a place free of ethnic racism and stereotyping. In a time when Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull House embraced them and showed them the true mean ...