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Question 2: -- Exhibit -In 1889, Jane Addams, a social reformer in Chicago, Illinois, founded a settlement house called Hull
House, which provided child care, kindergarten, libraries, playgrounds, vocational and domestic
training, and food services to poor city residents. It also sent visiting nurses to help care for the sick in
Chicago's crowded neighborhoods.
At Hull House, young mothers practiced ways to care for their children-including the daily infant bath,
which is illustrated in the photograph above. English-language classes, civic rights classes, and art
classes were also offered. The settlement houses provided important services to the poor at a time
when government and many churches did not provide them.
Many of the people who worked at the settlement houses also worked to outlaw sweatshop working
conditions, to promote organized labor, and to secure workers' compensation laws.
Adapted from Winthrop D. Jordan, Miriam Greenblatt, and John S. Bowes, The Americans: A History
(Evanston, Ill.: McDougal, Littell & Company, 1994), 497.
-- Exhibit -Based on the information, what did the middle-class settlement workers learn from their
work at Hull House?
A. Most immigrants who lived near Hull House had high-paying jobs.
B. Working conditions were clean, safe, and comfortable in the city factories.
C. City life was easy compared to life on a farm or small town.
D. Political action was necessary for economic reforms in the cities.
E. Working-class people in the city could afford their own health care.
Correct Answer: D
