Question

What was one major purpose of the settlement-house movement of the 1880s and 1890s?

• A. To provide day care for the young children of working parents
• B. To lead the fight for woman suffrage
• C. To organize a fight for racial integration in major cities
• D. To lead rent strikes against slum landlords
• E. To publish newspapers that revealed political graft and corruption

Answer 1

The correct option is A To provide day care for the young children of working parents

The major purpose of the settlement-house movement of the 1880s and 1890s was to provide day care for the young children of working parents. Settlement houses were not hotbeds of political activity, but they tried to accomplish practical good on a neighborhood level. The Settlement House movement was a reform that intended for the rich and the poor to live together in interdependent communities.