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==Hull House==

==Hull House==

In September 1889, Addams and a friend, [[Ellen Gates Starr]], moved into an 1850s mansion built by banker Charles Hull, but located in a neighborhood that had become a crowded multi-ethnic slum on the near West Side of Chicago controlled by local political bosses.  At one point she ran for alderman against the local boss, Johnnie Powers, and lost. Hull House, as Addams named it, became America's best known settlement house. She used Hull House to generate system-directed change—to keep families safe, community and societal conditions must be improved.<ref>Elshtain (2002). For some years previously Catholic nuns at Holy Family Parish had operated social welfare services in the same neighborhood. Hull House represented the first Protestant activity. See Ellen Skerrett, "The Irish Of Chicago's Hull-House Neighborhood." ''Chicago History'' 2001 30(1): 22-63. Issn: 0272-8540</ref>

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Starr and Addams developed three "ethical principles" for social settlements: "to teach by example, to practice cooperation, and to practice social democracy, that is, egalitarian, or democratic, social relations across class lines."<ref>Knight (2005) p. 182</ref>  Hull House therefore offered a comprehensive program of civic, cultural, recreational, and educational activities and attracted admiring visitors from all over the world, in including [[William Lyon MacKenzie King]], a graduate student from Harvard who later became prime minister of Canada. In the 1890s [[Julia Lathrop]], [[Florence kelley|Florence Kelley]], and other residents of the house made it a world center of social reform activity. Hull House used the latest methodology (pioneering in statistical mapping) to study overcrowding, truancy, typhoid fever, cocaine, children's reading, newsboys, infant mortality, and midwifery. Starting with efforts to improve the immediate neighborhood, the Hull House group became involved in city- and statewide campaigns for better housing, improvements in public welfare, stricter child-labor laws, and protection of working women. Addams brought in prominent visitors from around the world, and had close links with leading Chicago intellectuals and philanthropists.  Some of the Hull House residents were socialists, but Addams was committed to capitalism and its reform. In 1912 she helped found the [[Progressive Party]] and supported the presidential campaign of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], even though his platform called for building more battleships.

In September 1889, Addams and a friend, [[Ellen Gates Starr]], moved into an 1850s mansion built by banker Charles Hull, but located in a neighborhood that had become a crowded multi-ethnic slum on the near West Side of Chicago controlled by local political bosses. At one point she ran for alderman against the local boss, Johnnie Powers, and lost. Hull House, as Addams named it, became America's best known settlement house. She used Hull House to generate system-directed change—to keep families safe, community and societal conditions must be improved.<ref>Elshtain (2002). For some years previously Catholic nuns at Holy Family Parish had operated social welfare services in the same neighborhood. Hull House represented the first Protestant activity. See Ellen Skerrett, "The Irish Of Chicago's Hull-House Neighborhood." ''Chicago History'' 2001 30(1): 22-63. Issn: 0272-8540</ref>

==Emphasis on children==

==Emphasis on children==