Jane Addams Historical Figure Presentation

1. Jane Addams
By Mackay Heasley, Lauren Steers and Summer Frederick

3. Biographical Information
•Born September 6, 1860 in Cedarville Illinois
•Died May 21, 1935 (Aged 74)
•Youngest of Eight Children Born
•Mother Died When she was two
•Her father, John Addams, was Politically Prominent
•Enjoyed Playing Outdoors, Reading, and Sunday school
•Contracted Tuberculosis in her Spine as a Child

4. Developed a passion
Her mother was an inspiration
Reading books had inspired her

5. Strengths
Ambitious
Determined

6. Timeline
Jane
Addams
birth
1860
Abraham
Lincoln
elected
President
Jane
Addams
death
1935
The Great
Depression
began
1865
13th
Amendment
passed to
outlaw slavery
Attends
Rockford
Female
Seminary
1877
1889
Start of the
Hull House
1909
Became the 1st
female President of
National Conference
of Social Work
Vice President of
National American
Woman Suffrage
Association
1897
William
McKinley
elected
President
1914
WWI
began
Helped organize
Woman’s Peace
Party
1861 1911 1915
1929
1931
1st American
woman to receive
Nobel Peace Prize
1918
End of
WWI
1932
Franklin
Roosevelt
elected
President
1919
Founded Woman’s
International
League for Peace
and Freedom
1920
19th
Amendment
for women's
suffrage

7. Today
Immigration
United Neighborhood Houses (UNH)
Lutheran Settlement House

8. Questions
Did you get any criticism for advocating for impoverished people?
Did Lincoln’s view about human rights affect your view on human rights?
Were your intentions regarding immigration to help people come to the
United States, or just to help the people that were already here?
Do you think we should be helping Syrian refugees? If so, how?