1. Early American Settlement Houses
These houses allowed for middle class citizens to help their fellow poverty-stricken citizens by moving into houses in more poor areas of cities in order to teach the middle class philosophies of how to succeed in the United States. ... The houses provided education, art lessons, physical fitness sessions, and social philosophies to immigrants who yearned to better their lives. ... The reason why these houses seemed so different from other services trying to provide the public with help was that these settlements were based on a philosophy that if a community stayed close together, they could...
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