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Jane Addams []
 * Background:**


 * born in Illinois on September 6, 1860
 * daughter of a political leader who was also a friend of Abraham Lincoln
 * had medical problems with her spine
 * was valedictorian of her class (had 17 students)
 * earned bachelor's degree
 * aimed to go to medical school and become of doctor but couldn't finish due to her health issues
 * traveled and wondered what her future should be for almost 4 years until she went to a settlement house in Europe when she was 27 years old
 * Addams had various positions
 * 1905: Chicago Board of Education, chairman of School Management Committee
 * 1908: helped start up Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy
 * 1909: President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (first woman)
 * 1910: first woman to receive honorary degree from Yale University
 * also conducted examinations where she lived in Chicago on midwifery, drug use, milk supplies, and sanitary conditions
 * was garbage inspector of the 19th ward
 * 1915: chairman of Women's Peace Party
 * President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom until 1929


 * Problems/solutions:**
 * 1889: she and Ellen Starr created a settlement house
 * "to provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago" (Jane Addams).
 * Hull House: by second year it had two thousand people every week
 * gave speeches about neighborhood necessities
 * collected money
 * encouraged other women to help
 * gave care to children
 * took care of the ill
 * listened to the troubled
 * kindergarten
 * club meetings for elder children
 * night school for adults
 * art gallery
 * public kitchen
 * coffee house
 * gymnasium
 * swimming pool
 * boarding club for girls
 * book bindery
 * art studio
 * music school
 * drama group
 * circulating library
 * employment bureau
 * labor museum
 * As a strong feminist, she believed
 * women's suffrage was necessary
 * women should create goals and dreams of what they wanted to do with their lives and look for opportunities to fulfill them
 * was completely against war
 * 1906: gave series of lectures about peace at University of Wisconsin
 * didn't think that America should be part of World War I, gave speech about this
 * due to her views on this, was kicked out of Daughters of the American Revolution
 * helped Herbert Hoover aid women and children of enemy nations
 * wrote books: __Newer Ideals of Peace__ and __Peace and Bread in Time of War__

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Problems in Chicago where Jane Addams lived:
 * inactive officials
 * unclean streets
 * not enough schools
 * filthy stables
 * factory laws go unnoticed
 * poor sewer system
 * sweat shops
 * child labor
 * crowded housing

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 * Spreading Awareness: wrote 11 books and many articles
 * In order to prevent World War I, she and other women had a meeting at the International Congress of Women at the Hague in 1915
 * Won Nobel Peace Prize in 1931

Bibliography

Addams, Jane. //THE OBJECTIVE VALUE OF A SOCIAL SETTLEMENT//. 1893. TS. Chicago. //Faculty.fairfield.edu//. Web. 6 Sept. 2011. . "Jane Addams - Biography." //Nobelprize.org//. Web. 06 Sept. 2011. . "Jane Addams Hull-House Museum." //University of Illinois at Chicago - UIC//. Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2009. Web. 06 Sept. 2011. .