JANE ADDAMS

This week my class has been reading about Jane Addams and I am going to tell you all about her.

When Jane was little she saw poor people 

Jane was reading from her dad books 

Then he died 

Then for 2 years she saw poor people buying old food from markets 

Then she went back to the palace

Then she built over 10 workshops

When people give her gifts, she gives them away  ‘

Then she put in a public bath to help people not get sick 

Then she put in a playground 

Then by 1907 there was 13 workshops

Then in 1920 more people came to the house’s that Jane built

And she made people's lives better then they had been before

And her childhood wish had come true for her 

This is a true story and it is a really good book. 

1 Why did Jane Addams do this for the poor people?

2  What had happened to the poor?

3 How did the poor look up to Jane Addams? 

4 Why did she help strangers? 

5 How did she help them?

Timeline of Jane Addams' Life

1860 - Jane Addams is born in Cedarville, Illinois.

 

1877-1881 - Jane Addams attends Rockford Female Seminary.

 

1889 - Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House, a settlement house, in Chicago.

 

1903 - Jane Addams becomes the vice president of the National Women's Trade Union League.

 

1909 - Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and is elected 1st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later National Conference of Social Work).

 

1911-1914 - 1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association and 1st head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers.

1915 - Helps organize the Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st Chairman.

1919 - Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serves as President 1919-29.

1931 - 1st American woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

1935 - Jane Addams passes away in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois