Jane Addams and Mother Teresa

Maisie O’MearaMrs. Herrmann

World History HonorsSemester Presentation

Two Motherly Figures

• Biography– Jane Addams– Mother Teresa

• Similarities• Differences• Who had a greater

impact?

When was Jane Addams

born?

Who was Jane Addams very devoted to in her younger

years?

What school did Jane Addams go to and graduate

from?

Where did Jane Addams and her friends tour for

almost two years?

What did Jane Addams have

surgery for which caused her to be on bed rest for a year?

Where did Jane get her inspiration to establish a home that would help people in need?

What was Jane Addams’s most

famous establishment

called?

How did Jane Addams die?

What is Jane Addams

remembered as?

Childhood

• Born September 6, 1860• Born in Cedarville,

Illinois• Mother died when she

was two years old• Had a congenital spine

defect• Very devoted to father

Education• Attended Rockford

Female Seminary• Developed strong

leadership skills• Graduated in 1881• Valedictorian of a class of

seventeen• Received bachelor’s

degree at Rockford College for Women

• Father encouraged her to pursue higher education

Problems as a Young Woman

• Parents thought she had enough education• Took Jane and friends to

Europe

• Became very ill during this trip

• Father died when she returned

Problems as a Young Woman

• Became depressed and even more ill

• Could not move without pain

• Had surgery to fix spine

• Put into a back harness

Work

• Went back to Europe• Sightseeing with friends• Introduced to works of

Toynbee Hall– Encouraged Jane and

Ellen G. Starr to create similar house

Work• 1889- Jane and Ellen

leased house from Charles Hull

• Moved in with a purpose • create a center that

would help people

Hull House

• Cared for children• Cared for the sick• Second year-Hull House

was helping 2,000 people every week

More Work

• Worked to – End poverty– Improve labor conditions– Make school for children

mandatory

• 1911- Became first vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

More Work

• 1912- Campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party

• Wrote a few books– Twenty Years at Hull

House– Newer Idols of Peace

Accomplishments• 1909- Became first

woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections

• 1915- Accepted chairmanship of the Women’s Peace Party

• President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom until 1929

• 1931- Nobel Peace Prize

What is Mother Teresa’s birth

name?

What did Mother Teresa join in

Ireland when she was 18?

When did Mother Teresa make her

initial vows to become a nun?

When did Mother Teresa receive her inspiration

from Jesus?

Where did Mother Teresa spend

much of her time working in?

What was Mother Teresa’s most

significant establishment

called?

How many Missionary of

Charity foundations did Mother Teresa

establish?

In what year did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?

When did Mother

Teresa die?

Childhood

• Born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia

• Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu • Father died when she was

eight– Left family in financial debt

• Member of the youth group called Sodality

Childhood

• Felt a strong call from God• Mother, encouraged her

vocation• Knew she was going to be a

missionary

Path to Becoming “Mother Teresa”

• Received First Communion when she was five and a half• Was confirmed in November of 1916• Left home to join the Sisters of Loreto• Trained in Dublin• Made initial vows to become a nun on May 24, 1931

First Communion

Confirmation

Work• October 7, 1950-established

Missionaries of Charity• 1960’s-Mother Teresa sent

Sisters to other parts of India to serve the poor

• 1965- she was encouraged by Pope Paul VI to open a house in Venezuela

Work• Eventually there was a

house in every continent

• From 1980 on a house was opened in every communist country– Soviet Union– Albania – Cuba

Mother Teresa’s Establishments

• 1963-established Missionary of Charity Brothers

• 1976-established Contemplative Sisters

• 1979-established Contemplative Brothers

• 1984-Missionary of Charity Fathers

Accomplishments

• Mother Teresa’s sisters reached 4,000 members

• 610 foundations established in 123 countries

• Indian Padmashri Award in 1962

• Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971

Accomplishments

• Nehru Prize in 1972– For her great promotion

of international peace

• Nobel Peace Prize in 1979

• Balzan Prize in 1979

Similarities

• Influences• Older siblings• Parent died• Encouraged by a parent• Traveled to different

countries to study• Developed strong

leadership skils

Similarities

• Wanted to help the needy

• Worked in the slums• Very generous and

determined• Nobel Peace Prize• Created very important

establishments• Very famous women

activists

Differences• Grew up in different parts

of world– Jane Addams

• United States– Mother Teresa

• Macedonia

• Education– Jane Addams

• Rockford Female Seminary– Mother Teresa

• School and youth group at parish

Differences

• Addams had no direction• Mother Teresa knew she

wanted to be a missionary

• Jane addams– Materialistic– Political

• Mother Teresa– Religious– Spiritual

Differences

• Legacies– Jane Addams

• Social work

– Mother Teresa• Extreme compassion

Greater Impact

• Jane Addams• Very first social worker• Worked very hard for

other causes• Mother Teresa’s work

was more limited

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November 9, 2008, from http://www.lkwdpl.org/ WIHOHIO/ adda-jan.htm

• Mother Teresa of Calcutta. (n.d.). Retrieved November 9, 2008, from EWT Web site: http://www.ewtn.com/ motherteresa/

• Nobel Peace Prize. (2008). Nobelprize.org. Retrieved November 9, 2008, from http://nobelprize.org/ index.html