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media type="youtube" key="s1ikSlJYens" height="295" width="480" N: Hello Ms Addams, how do you do? A: Oh, I’m fine thank you. N: Thank you for sharing in this interview. I know that you are very engaged in packed schedules. Will you briefly introduce yourself? A: Oh, yes. I am Jane Addams and I was born in Cedarville, Illinois, on 1860. I am a sociologist, pacifist, and a feminist. I co founded one of the nation’s first public welfare houses called the Hull House and I took part in creating influential social organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. N: Wow, you are very ardent in sociology, like I heard. That place called Hull House.. Please explain to us how you came up with the idea for this magnificent place. A: Well, even before I became a sociologist, I was very interested in the world and I toured places like Europe very often. But I was about 27, when I visited Europe for the second time with my wonderful friend named Ellen Starr. Ellen and I visited a settlement house in London called the Toynbee Hall and that visit gave me a idea to finalize that opening a similar house in an underprivileged area of Chicago will help plenty of Americans suffering with lack of public services. Ellen and I purchased a large home built by Charles Hull at the corner of Polk Street two years later, and took the name from the architect and got its name, Hull House. N: When I talk about you, Ms Addams, I always hear great accomplishments you’ve made with the activities at the Hull House. A: Yes, the main problem that I was trying to solve was the consequences from the wars that were going on that time. Wars such as Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I influenced to decline the number of jobs, proper education for children, people’s social life and more and at the same increased the number of immigrants moving in and Americans moving out of the country to find a living. That’s why the Hull House provided families and immigrants with housing facilities, language classes, legal aid, job training, hobby groups and other services in an effort to improve neighborhood life. The schedules were mostly divided into three parts, of kindergarten classes in the morning, club meetings for older children in the afternoon, and night school for adults in the evening. N: Oh, I see. So settlement houses were neighborhood social welfare agencies. A: Yes, indeed. My purposes for the Hull House was to provide a center for a higher metropolitan and social life, to institute and maintain educational and charitable enterprises and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial parts of Chicago. By the second year of the creation of the Hull-House, it hosted up to two thousand people every week. My philosophy is that women should make their voices heard in legislation and have the right to vote, but in every aspect, women should generate ambitions and search out opportunities to realize themselves. And children; they are what America’s future relies on therefore people like us should teach the children with care for them to be taught so that we can continue living. N: So what other things do you participate to carryout your philosophy, Ms Addams? A: I give lectures in Universities such as the University of Wisconsin, and I spoke at the ceremony celebrating the building of the Peace Palace at The Hague and was a lecturer for speaking against America's entry into the First World War. Countless wars going on that time and also the depression from Stock Market Crash in 1930, which made me to participate more and more N: You’ve come a long way Ms Addams. And you are the first women to receive the Nobel Prize I believe? A: That is true. I received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. N: Thank you so much for the astounding interview! I’m sure many students learned tons from this. A: My pleasure. N: Take care Ms Addams, and tell Ms Ellen Starr that I said hi. A: Alright. Thank you.

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===="Jane Addams - Biography." __Nobelprize.org__. The Nobel Foundation 1931. 5 Dec. 2008 . ====

===="Jane Addams." __Women in History__. 14 Feb. 2008. Lakewood Public Library. 4 Dec. 2008 . ==== **DBQ on Jane Addams Primary Source:** 1. How does Jane Addams' passion and philosophy contribute to the ideas of Industrial Revolution? 2. Was the creation of the Hull House effective in order to form a better world like today? What causes (poverty, low wages, economic depression etc.) was she trying to solve? 3. Can you name any periods of time that we learned (Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, etc) to what Addams was encountering through her life? And how? 4. What did Addams do to carryout her philosophy?