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Hull House, Chicago. Settlement and community houses in the United States were a vital part of the settlement movement, a progressive social movement that began in the mid-19th century in London with the intention of improving the quality of life in poor urban areas through education initiatives, food and shelter provisions, and assimilation and naturalization assistance.
A count of American settlements reported: 74 in 1897; 103 in 1900; 204 in 1905; and 413 by 1911 in 32 states. [25] By the 1920s, the number of settlement houses in the country peaked at almost 500. [23] The settlement house concept was continued by Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker "hospitality houses" in the 1930s.
In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr established the first settlement house in America (a settlement house is a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services), in what was then a dilapidated mansion in one of the poorest immigrant slums of Chicago on the corner of Halstead and Polk streets. [171]
In September 1984, the Carters and a dozen other volunteers made their way to New York, where they worked on a six-story apartment building that gave safe and affordable housing to families.
Women residing in the US automatically retained their American citizenship if they did not explicitly renounce; women residing abroad had the option to retain American citizenship by registration with a US consul. [55] The aim of these provisions was to prevent cases of multiple nationalities among women. [56] 1908. Muller v.
The road to Reno: A history of divorce in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1977) Chused, Richard H. Private acts in public places: A social history of divorce in the formative era of American family law (U of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) Griswold, Robert L. "The Evolution of the Doctrine of Mental Cruelty in Victorian American Divorce, 1790-1900."
Divorce rates in America While the divorce rate in America is higher than the world average (1.6 per 1,000 people), national marriage and divorce dates in the U.S. both mirror the global decline.
The floor area of houses has also increased over the years. The median house built in 2015 had an area of about 2,467 square feet, about 62% larger than the median in 1973 of 1,525 square feet.