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Which of the following best describes what Addams meant by "the Settlement"?

Which of the following best describes what Addams meant by "the Settlement&quot-example-1
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Hull house

Jane Addams was referring to the Hull House in that statement. The hull house is a settlement that was built by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 in a place in Chicago, Illinois. Both if the women co-founded it and named it after the first owner, Charles Jerald Hull. It opened so as to serve the immigrants that had arrived in America from Europe, as a place for them to settle down while they found their feet in the country.

The Hull house was tagged, "a community of university women". As one of its purposes was to serve as a social and and educational opportunities for working class people that were living and it working nearby and around.

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