How did the Progressive movement affect immigrants?

To some degree,
Progressive reformers helped immigrants. Women such as Jane Addams, who ran Hull House in
Chicago, and other workers in settlement houses helped immigrants by providing English classes
and instruction related to assimilation into American life. Settlement houses were generally
located in urban areas such as Chicago and New York and offered immigrants services for their
children, including daycare and opportunities for recreation such as drama and sewing, as well
as classes. These institutions were generally run by college-educated Protestant women. Other
Progressives worked to improve working conditions for immigrant women and children in factories
and to limit child labor.

Middle-class Protestant white women were also
active in other parts of the Progressive movement, including temperance. This strain of
Progressivism, which resulted in Prohibition (which banned the sale and transport of alcohol
with the 18th Amendment), had an anti-immigrant bias to it. Many advocates...

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