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==Jane Addams by Lisa Kim 9D - September 6, 1860 ~ May 21, 1935     == 

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Interview Script
 MC: Hello everyone! Today we have a very important guest. Please welcome, Mrs. Jane Addams. JA: Hello, good morning. Thank you Thank you MC: Welcome Mrs. Addams. It has been long since we have heard from you. JA: Yes, it’s been long. MC: Ok, so, tell us about your life when you were living in the Earth? JA: Oh, yes sure. Well, I was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, as the eighth out of nine children. My father was a political leader and he has served as a state senator for sixteen years. He was a good friend of our hero, Abraham Lincoln, and served as one of the official in Civil War. Because I knew how terrible a war is, it helped me to build the Hull House. MC: Please continue. JA: I was not very athletic because of a congenital spinal defect and because of that I had trouble in my schoolwork. I graduated from the Rockford Female Seminary, which later became Rockford College for Women, and was granted the bachelor’s degree. I traveled around the Europe with my friend, Ellen Starr, and visited Toynbee Hall, which later inspired me to find one of the nation’s first public welfare houses called the Hull House. MC: Wow! That is impressive Ms. Addams JA: Thank You. MC: So you say that you have found the Hull House. Could you explain more about this house? JA: Yes. Hull House was the solution that I came up with to improve the hard life that most Americans living during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were going through, due to the fact that there were many wars occurring in America. Wars, such as Civil War and World War, caused many men to die, unable to get jobs, no educations for the children and causing immigrants to move to America. I thought by building this house, it will give joy to our people. So, the main purpose is to build a place where people can enjoy their social life that they deserve and get educations. MC: Oh, I see. What is your philosophy, then, Mrs. Addams? JA: My philosophy? Well, I believe that the children is our future and we the adults should be caring and teaching education. I also believe women should have the same rights as the men and that women should know who they are and that they should also have the right to vote. MC: Amazing! I totally agree with you. Well before we ran out of time, I would like to ask you one more thing. So you are the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on 1931. How did you feel? JA: Pain. MC: Pardon me? JA: Yes, I felt pain because on that very day, I was admitted to a hospital because I had a heart attack and I couldn’t full gain my health. But when I heard later on that I was the first woman to earn the Nobel Prize, I was so joyful that I forgot my pain. MC: Oh, how painful it was for you that you were not in good health. You have done good things to improve the Earth and we all appreciate what you have done. Well, that’s it for today and let’s clap for our guest, Jane Addams. Once again, thank you for coming here today and we’ll see you later!

Primary Sources

<span style="background-color: rgb(250, 249, 250);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1. "Jane Addams: quote on children." World History: The Modern Era. 2008. ABC-CLIO. 8 Dec. 2008 [|http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com]. //"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it."//

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 3, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 249, 250);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2. "Reading 'First Days at Hull-House.'" __Urban Experience in Chicago__. 8 Dec. 2008 <http://tigger.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/urbanexp/main.cgi?file=new/show_doc.ptt&doc=804&chap=136.> 4 Washington Pl. Chicago, Feb. 12th 1889
 * Jane Addams to Mary Catherine Addams Linn, February 12, 1889, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Jane Addams Papers, Series 1, in JAMC (reel 2-1008-1016), Special Collections, The University Library, The University of Illinois at Chicago.**

My dear Mary:

Your kind letter came Saturday morning at the same time with one from Weber and one from Alice. I sat down to read them and made myself late at the Clybourn Ave. Mission. But they so filled my heart with happiness and good will that it was well worth being late. So many things keep happening and the "ball is rolling at such a cheerful pace" as Ellen says, that it is hard to keep you all informed. Ellen wrote a long letter to Miss [Sarah] Anderson [at Rockford Female Seminary] last evening and I asked her (Miss A) to send it to Weber. I will try to outline the same thing if you would be kind enough to [end frame 2-1008] send it on to Alice. In the first place Mrs. [Julia] Beveridge has been exceedingly kind to me and I shall always feel indebted to her. Moreover she believes in the scheme. She came to lunch with me on Thursday and in the afternoon we call[ed] together first on Mrs. [Laura Davidson] Sears whom I had met the day before at the Industrial Art Society & who is quite determined to have me elected a member of the "Woman Club" to "vivify them" as she says—and then we met an appointment Mrs. Beveridge had made for me with Mr. [O.] Smith, the Supt. of the Armour Mission, and Dr. [John H.] Hollister. Dr. H. is a member of the faculty of the Chicago Medical and very kindly philanthropic old gentleman. He listened with the utmost satisfaction [end frame 2-1010] and interest to the scheme saying now and then "Go on Miss Addams," altho when we finally went, there were eight people waiting in the outer office. He shook my hand warmly when we left & told me to come to him when ever I felt the need of a friend who had had some experience in Chicago and said he would attend the meeting of the Armour Mission on Sunday. I met the entire board of the Armour Mission last Sunday at four, about twenty gentlemen including some of the head teachers with Mrs. Beveridge to chaperon me—Dr. Hollister himself introduced me, sat beside me and petted my shoulder encouragingly when I said anything that [end frame 2-1011] pleased him.

Document Based Questions (DBQ) 1. Based on the first Primary Source in the above, what is Jane Addams' belief? 2. What was the solution that Addams came up with to solve the problem? 3. Why did Jane Addams create Hull House? In other words, what caused her to built this house?

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 3, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 249, 250);"><span style="color: rgb(22, 135, 167); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Works Cited
<span style="background-color: rgb(250, 249, 250);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1. "Jane Addams." __Women in History__. 14 Feb. 2008. Lakewood Public Library. 4 Dec. 2008 <http://www.lkwdpl.org/WIHOHIO/adda-jan.htm>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 2. "Jane Addams: The Nobel Peace Prize 1931 ." __Nobelprize.org__. 4 Dec. 2008 <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html>.