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The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there were 74 settlement and neighborhood ...
Italians in the United States before 1880. Bronze dedication on a southwest tower of the DuSable Bridge, Chicago, Ill. "In honor of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle & Enrico Tonti." Enrico Tonti founded the first European settlement in Illinois in 1679, and in Arkansas in 1683, making him "The Father of Arkansas".
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in the United Kingdom and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social connection. Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban ...
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From 1880 to 1914, 13 million Italians migrated out of Italy, [53] making Italy the scene of one of the largest voluntary emigrations in recorded world history. [54] During this period of mass migration, 4 million Italians arrived in the United States, 3 million of them between 1900 and 1914. [ 55 ]
1988. The couple’s romance did not become public until his divorce from first wife Julianne Phillips was settled. Patti Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen perform live, 1988. John Atashian/Getty ...
Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull, opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings.
The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away ...