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Cities and Settlement Houses
Post-Civil War industrialization and immigration lead to enormous city growth, as many newcomers to America were crowded into cramped and filthy tenements.
The settlement
house movement sought to relieve the pressures of urban immigrant life by providing
community social services in an informal, neighborly setting.
The most
famous example is Chicago's Hull House, founded by social reformer Jane Addams.
Less concerned with providing the moral improvement charitable organizations
sought, Hull House offered some practical services to its community, like the
first childcare and kindergarten in Chicago.
