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Early European Approaches to Social Welfare/Civil
War Era
Famous People
1900 -1930
1960s -1970s or Mental Health Movement
Dates and Misc info
100
Almshouses
What are the institutions in England where the impotent poor were placed and provided food and shelter.
100
Jane Addams
Who began a settlement house in Chicago called the Hull House
100
White House Conference On Dependent Children
What was first held in 1909 and was such a success that it had been held every 10 years since, except for 1981 when the Reagan administration canceled it.
100
President Lyndon B. Johnson
The “Great Society” was initiated by what President
100
1770s
What decade was the beginning of moral treatment movement in mental health.
200
Elizabethan Poor Law
What was considered the first piece of legislation establishing coherent, consistent public support for needy people through local taxes.
200
Mary Richmond
Who wrote Social Diagnosis, the first book to address professional social work practice
200
The New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated a package of programs called the ?
200
Brown vs the Board of Education
What was the landmark ruling in 1954 by the Supreme Court that overturned the separate but equal doctrine and declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
200
1964
What year was the Civil Rights Act passed
300
Speenhamland System
What was the system of supplementing the income of all poor people so everyone would have a minimum income necessary for survival.
300
Reverend Charles Loring Brace
Who gathered up thousands of juvenile paupers from the New York City streets and sent them to live with farm families in the Midwest and believed that farmers were the ideal citizens and that farming was the ideal occupation
300
1920
What year did the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote, pass
300
Job Corps
What agency recruited impoverished youths ages 16-24 from disadvantaged urban and rural communities, and provided them with residential training, employment, and work skills.
300
1990
What year was the Passage of Americans with Disabilities Act in?
400
Industrialization
The mammoth growth in manufacturing and technology that occurred in the U.S. between the Civil War and the early 20th century was called:
400
Etta Wheeler
Who appealed to the president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who helped get “a special warrant” from a New York Supreme Court judge to remove Mary Ellen Wilson from her abusive home.
400
The Public Works Administration
What program was meant to stimulate depressed industries by contracting with private businesses to build extensive public facilities. Projects included airports, dams, flood-control projects, and military installations.
400
Volunteers in Service in America
What agency recruits volunteers to work in urban and rural neighborhoods experiencing economic and cultural problems.
400
1935
What year was The Social Security Act passed in?
500
Initially used as friendly visitors who tried to help people figure out how to solve their problems
What are Charity Organization Societies:
500
National Farm Workers Association
What group did Cesar Chavez form
500
The Civilian Conservation Corps
What is the name of the program that initially recruited males between 18 and 25 who were receiving public assistance, and transported them to revitalize parks in the West.
500
Deinstitutionalization
What is the mental health movement which emphasized the provision of care in people’s own communities
500
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land
What was the first Federal Welfare Agency?