Settlement House

Examples of Settlement House in the following topics:

• The Settlement House Movement

  • The Settlement House movement was a reform that intended for the rich and the poor to live together in interdependent communities.
  • Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, founded in 1894; Henry Street Settlement, founded in 1893; and University Settlement House, founded in 1886 (and the oldest in the United States) were important sites for social reform.
  • United Neighborhood Houses of New York was the federation of 35 settlement houses in New York City.
  • These and other settlement houses inspired the establishment of settlement schools to serve isolated rural communities in Appalachia.
  • The settlement-house concept was continued by Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker hospitality houses in the 1930s.

• Introduction

  • One example of how people do sociology is Hull House.
  • Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
  • Located in Chicago, Hull House opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants.
  • In 1892, Addams published her thoughts on what has been described as "the three R's" of the settlement house movement: residence, research, and reform.
  • Hull House conducted careful studies of the Chicago community.

• Social Justice

  • The purpose of the settlement houses was to raise the standard of living of urbanites by providing adult education and cultural enrichment programs.
  • Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
  • By 1911, Hull House had grown to 13 buildings.
  • In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with the addition of a summer camp, the Bowen Country Club.
  • With its innovative social, educational, and artistic programs, Hull House became the standard bearer for the movement that had grown, by 1920, to almost 500 settlement houses nationally.

• Tenements and Overcrowding

  • It is the lullaby of tenement-house babes.
  • The Tenement House Act of 1867 was amended by the Tenement House Act of 1879, also known as the "Old Law," which required lot coverage of no more than 65 percent.
  • In some cities, social reformers built "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.
  • The settlement houses provided services such as daycare, education, and healthcare to improve the lives of the poor in these areas.
  • The most famous settlement house in the United States is Chicago's Hull House, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 after Addams visited Toynbee Hall within the previous two years.

• The Southwest

  • Southwest architecture includes cliff dwellings (multi-story settlements carved from living rock), pit houses, and adobe and sandstone pueblos.
  • One of the most elaborate and largest ancient settlements is Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, which includes 15 major complexes of sandstone and timber.
  • The largest of these settlements, Pueblo Bonito, contains over 800 rooms .
  • The impressive Pueblo Bonito was built by the Ancestral Puebloans as one of several settlements at Chaco Canyon.

• Neolithic Art

  • The Neolithic 2 began around 8800 BCE and is characterized by settlements built with rectangular mud-brick houses with single or multiple rooms, the greater use of domesticated animals, and advancements in tools.
  • These developments in architecture point to settlement in permanent locations.
  • A settlement of 3,000 inhabitants was found in the outskirts of Amman, Jordan.
  • This settlement produced what are believed to be the earliest large-scale human figures.
  • The Ubaid culture flourished from about 6500 to 3800 BCE in Mesopotamia and is characterized by large village settlements that employed multi-room rectangular mud-brick houses.

• Jamestown, Virginia

  • Established in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the American colonies.
  • Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia established by the Virginia Company of London in 1607.
  • This became known as the House of Burgesses.
  • The House of Burgesses instituted individual land ownership and divided the colony into four large boroughs.
  • Analyze and discuss the founding and growth of the Jamestown settlement.

• Hooverville

  • But the economic downturn greatly increased the numbers and concentrations in urban settlements, nearby soup kitchens and other charitable organizations.
  • Homeless people formed settlements on empty land which generally consisted of tents and small shacks.
  • Many shantytown residents were former workers who had construction skills and were able to build their houses out of stone.
  • Most people, however, resorted to making houses out of wood from crates, cardboard, scraps of metal and whatever other materials were available.

• Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization

  • In total, more than 1,052 cities and settlements have been found, mainly in the general region of the Indus River and its tributaries.
  • Houses opened only to inner courtyards and smaller lanes, and even the smallest homes on the city outskirts were believed to have been connected to the system, further supporting the conclusion that cleanliness was a matter of great importance.
  • The first is that there was a single state encompassing all the communities of the civilization, given the similarity in artifacts, the evidence of planned settlements, the standardized ratio of brick size, and the apparent establishment of settlements near sources of raw material.
  • Sokhta Koh, a Harappan coastal settlement near Pasni, Pakistan, is depicted in a computer reconstruction.

• The Election of 1824

  • John Quincy Adams was elected president by the House of Representatives in 1824, despite not winning the popular vote.
  • He favored an active federal government committed to internal improvements, such as roads and canals, to bolster national economic development and settlement of the West.
  • House Speaker Clay did not want to see his rival, Jackson, become president and therefore worked within the House to secure the presidency for Adams, convincing many to cast their vote for the New Englander.
  • This map illustrates the voting for candidates by state in the House of Representatives election of 1824.
  • Adams, despite not winning the popular vote, won 54 percent of the House votes and was elected president in 1825.