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    private agencies joined together to provide services to individuals & families (Third Slide) SETTLEMENT HOUSES * Established in the late 1800’s * Houses in impoverished neighborhoods * Teached residents how to live moral lives * Objective was to improve housing‚ health‚ living conditions‚ find jobs‚ and teach English JANE ADDAMS * Most noted leader in the settlement house movement * Rented a 2 story house in an impoverished Chicago neighborhood * Provide services

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    pollution‚ hazardous environments‚ and overall undesirable conditions of life for the inhabitants of the cities. The sociocultural aspect of this dissent was addressed by Chicagoan Jane Addams – her Hull House‚ the most famous of her altruistic settlement houses‚ provided the means by which the poor unemployed could received skills necessary to obtain a job and the such. Another significant

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    History Settlement of NSW Questions 1. One conclusion about the conditions of early settlement in NSW that can be made from source 1 is that the development of the colony was very disorganised and haphazard. In the painting‚ we can see many buildings in the picture‚ but they do not seem to follow any particular layout or street structure. It appears that people had simply built their properties wherever they thought would be good. (After finishing) Source 1 also shows us the inequality of shelters

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    melting pot. The fact that many different races lived in the Middle colonies caused them not to have one religion. The Southern colonies began with the settlement of Jamestown. “The Virginia Company of London who sent 104 English men and boys to begin a settlement on the banks of Virginia James River sponsored the settlement.” (Jamestown Settlement) Although it was hard work of settling the colony it respectively earned the right to being called Americas first permanent English Colony. The economy

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    Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die In 1607? It was not an easy beginning during the time of the Jamestown settlement‚ the majority of the settlers died due to extreme conditions‚ what was the cause of this? In the spring of 1607‚ the king of England gave 110 Englishmen his blessing to sail in search of gold. These Englishmen sailed into the mouth of a bay on the coast of Virginia. However the question we are now faced with is‚ Why did do many colonist die? The colonist died because of three

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    successful in helping many oppressed people. Jane Addams is most famous for her work in two major movements‚ the first of which is the Settlement House movement of the 1800s. Settlement houses‚ which first originated in England. These facilities were created in response to problems arising from immigration‚ urbanization‚ and industrialization. In America‚ the settlement houses were typically available for medical assistance‚ housing‚ and education to immigrants in the areas surrounding them (Izzo‚ 2010)

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    Elizabethan Religious Settlement The Elizabethan Religious Settlement was Elizabeth I’s response to the religious divisions created over the reigns of Henry VIII‚ Edward VI and Mary I. This response‚ described as "The Revolution of 1559"‚[1] was set out in two Acts of the Parliament of England. The Act of Supremacy of 1559 re-established the Church of England’s independence from Rome‚ with Parliament conferring on Elizabeth the title Supreme Governor of the Church of England‚ while the Act of Uniformity

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    The Jamestown Settlement "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder‚ as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence‚ for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." -John Adams. Jamestown‚ Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. The Jamestown Colony is a town in Virginia. It is the oldest‚ and first‚ English colony in North America. The London Company‚ formed in 1606

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    In the early seventeenth century two separate groups founded two very different colonies. The first to be colonized was the settlement of Jamestown‚ located on the Chesapeake Bay which is in present day Virginia. Just over a decade later the colony of Plymouth was founded on what is now known as Cape Cod‚ Massachusetts. Though both the Massachusetts Bay colony and the Jamestown colony were established in a similar historical timeframe‚ they developed distinctly different social views regarding the

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    settlers. These 110 settlers had hoped to start a new settlement. The English thought they had it all figured out‚ little did they know the worst thing could happen to them when starting a settlement is going to be death caused by a drought‚ having brackish water‚ no sources to grow food‚ and natives with disease to kill the English. Well to begin with the Spanish were defeated which was the main reason the English thought they could start a settlement‚ so they did they could it Jamestown in honor of

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