What did some people do to help the problems in the cities?
* they started a program called the Social Gospel movement, which preached the message of salvation through to the poor.
* they established the settlement houses, which were community centers that provided assistance to people in the area, expecially immigrants. Alot of people lived at the centers so they could find out more about the problems and how they could fix them.
*the settlement houses runned by college-educated women, provided educational, cultural, and social services. They provided classes for people such as: painting, health, english courses.
* The settlement houses also sent visiting nurses into homes of people that were sick and provided aid for them.
Urbanization-the growth of cities
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