... class, daughter or wife of a business or professional man, and had a better education than average."" Jane Addams was shaped through the expansion of college education, the women's club movement, and population growth in the country. During the Civil War, the mid-western land-grand colleges admitted women. By 1910, "five percent of college-age Americans attended college and forty percent of ... to fit in with the new society. In some ways Hull House "provided an alternative to the saloon as a gathering place and to the political machine as giver of favors."" Population growth in the natio...

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... States welcomed these Asians because they were hard workers who worked for low wages. They were employed by Union Pacific Railroads to complete the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The Chinese population doubled itself from 1860-1870. However during the late 1870s anti-Chinese legislation and exclusion laws began. Chinese began to cluster together in ghettos of American cities and towns for survival ... ...

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