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Colonial America: 1607–1783 &
Origins of Social Advocacy: The 1800s
Progressive Era: 1890–1920 &
World War I Era: 1914–1918
The Great Depression: 1929–1940s &
World War II Era: 1939–1945
America’s War on Poverty: 1960–1967 & Reaganomics: 1981–1989
9/11 and Beyond: 2000–Present
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Similar to Elizabethan Poor Laws, these were implemented to limit the extent to which colonists had to care for poor who were not their immediate relatives.
What is Poor Laws of Colonial America?
100
In 1932, he was elected president of the U.S. and called for a bold federally-funded relief plan for the nation's needy, including unemployment insurance and a social security system.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
A program providing preschool education for children from low-income backgrounds, this program was part of President Johnson's Great Society campaign.
What is Head Start?
100
In the aftermath of 9/11 (a domestic terror attack), this U.S. president launched two wars in the Middle East, established the Department of Homeland Security, and reduced taxes. This resulted in a huge national debt, faltering economy, and a worldwide credit crisis.
Who is George W. Bush?
200
A method for caring for the poor in early America, this actually means providing in-home care in lieu of sending someone to a poor house.
What is Outdoor relief.
200
This group turned attention to environmental factors associated with poverty.
What is the settlement movement?
200
He was a social worker and the head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the U.S.'s first federal program to offer relief to the nation's citizens on a large scale since the Civil War era.
Who is Harry Hopkins?
200
Passed in 1965, this program was enacted to provide medical care for families and individuals with low income and limited resources.
What is Medicaid?
200
Controversial because it expanded the role of the federal government and signed into law by President Obama, this social welfare policy was designed to improve access to health coverage through health exchanges, expanded Medicaid coverage, and including mental health in coverage.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
300
These moved approximately 200,000 children from cities like New York and Boston to the American West to be adopted. Many of these children were placed with parents who loved and cared for them; however others always felt out of place and some were even mistreated.
What is Orphan Trains?
300
Known as the "mother" of social work, she was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She founded Hull House in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
300
Enacted in 1935, this is the foundation of the U.S. social welfare system, established in response to broad economic insecurity during the Great Depression.
What is the Social Security Act?
300
He became president of the U.S. on the promise of "civil order" and a return to a conservative agenda, he left the office after his participation in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
300
The notion that only certain people who are poor (such as children or the elderly) while others are excluded from care (on the basis of factors such as race, immigration status, incarceration, drug use, etc.).
What is "deserving" vs. "undeserving" poor?
400
She was "an American activist on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums."
Who is Dorothea Dix?
400
She wrote the first social work book, Social Diagnosis, which introduced a methodology and common body of knowledge for social work practice.
Who is Mary Richmond?
400
Presiden Roosevelt issued this to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race in the defense industries during World War II.
What is Executive Order 8802?
400
Also known as "supply side economics", this economic approach is characterized by a reduction in tax obligations for the rich, which was supposed to stimulate greater spending on goods and services.
What is trickle-down economics?
400
The minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs.
What is a living wage?
500
U.S. Colonists relying on each other in times of need.
What is Mutual Aid?
500
During World War I, social workers shifted from a concern with politics to a concern with efficient day-to-day operation of social welfare bureaucracies. This shift is referred to as what?
What is cause to function?
500
Drawing on the political ideals of the Progressive Era, this policy included 1) direct relief, 2) economic recovery, and 3) financial reform.
What is The New Deal?
500
This Act's passage and signature by President Clinton replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program—which had been in effect since 1935 - with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The law was heralded as a "reassertion of America's work ethic" by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce."
What is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)?
500
Unlike government aid which is provided through Unemployment Insurance, Social Security, veterans pensions and other subsidized programs and benefits for which most Americans are eligible (e.g., subsidized private and public retirement programs, tax credits and allowable deductions), public welfare is _________.
What is means tested?