Jane Addams and the Hull

House: Guided Reading

Questions

1. When and where was

Jane Addams born?

A:

2. What year did

Jane Addams graduate

from Rockford College?

A:

3. What was Jane Addams

the founder

of?

4. Where was the settlement house known as the Hull House located?

A: Chicago

5. What gave Jane Addams

the idea to start a

settlement house in

the United States?

What was the name of the

organization that helped to finance

Jane Addams’ settlement house?

The Chicago Woman’s

Club called the project

the “Toynbee

Hall Experiment.

” What were the two main

purposes of this

experiment?

8. Fill-in-the-Blank : Jane Addams was not the only person helping poor people & immigrants who were living in the tenements… • Stanton Coit found the “Neighborhood Guild” in ____________ _______________ City and Jean Fine, Helen Rand, & Vida Scudder organized the “College ___________________ Association.

9. Fill-in-the-Blank : The “Hull

House” was

located in Chicago’s

ninth ward.

10. Fill-in-the-Blank :

The red brick building Jane

Addams would make into a settlement house had

been owned by _______Hull, so Jane named it

after the former owner.

11. When

did the Hull

House open?

12. List at five services the Hull House provided to the immigrants and poor people of the tenements.

1.2.3.4.5.

13. Name three other projects the Hull House

was responsible for.

1.2.3.

14. Besides the Hull House, list three more of Jane Addams accomplishments.1.2.3.

Eleanor Roosevelt,Rose Frances Witz, and

Jane Addams (1935)