What was the purpose of a settlement house?

To provide recreational, educational, and social services to people

The major purpose of settlement houses was to help to assimilate and ease the transition of immigrants into the labor force by teaching them middle-class American values. In Chicago, for instance, Hull-House helped to educate immigrants by providing classes in history, art, and literature.

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They were constantly being overlooked as a people and were being controlled by people who weren't really native to their homeland.