What was the purpose and outcome of Hull House, the settlement movement founded by Jane Addams in Chicago?

• A. Hull House served as a political machine to control city elections.
• B. Hull House provided social services, education, and advocacy for poor immigrants, leading to reforms in housing, child welfare, and public health.
• C. Hull House acted as a factory labor hub.
• D. Hull House published immigration regulations.

Answer: (B)

Hull House combined direct, practical help with efforts to change the systems that kept people in poverty. It offered education, language classes, childcare, healthcare, libraries, and cultural programs for immigrants and the urban poor, while also organizing residents to push for improvements in housing, sanitation, child welfare, and public health. This mix of serving neighbors and advocating for reforms led to real changes in how cities treated housing conditions and child welfare and helped establish social work as a profession. It isn’t about political manipulation, industrial activity, or publishing immigration rules—the impact comes from turning everyday assistance into broader social improvements.