SOCIAL WELFARE PIONEERS
Charity Organization Societies are associated with which of the following historical figures?
Who is Mary Richmond?
In 1954, a ground-breaking Supreme Court ruling overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine in public education was called _____.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The _____ in 1917 gave all people born on the island of Puerto Rico U.S. citizenship.
What is the Jones Act?
The Speenhamland System was initiated in 1795 because of the high cost of ______.
What is Bread
The act that required cutting wheelchair ramps in sidewalks, widening doorways in public buildings, and lowering the height of light switches was passed in 1990. The name of the act is
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Settlement House/Hull House is associated with which of the following historical figures?
Who is Etta Wheeler?
President Roosevelt employed a three-pronged approach to provide relief during the New Deal. They were cash relief, short-term work relief, and _____.
What is creation of jobs?
Often considered the first piece of legislation establishing coherent, consistent public support for needy people through local taxes, the [answer0] were established in 1601.
What is Elizabethan Poor Laws
The Great Depression ended in 1941 because of ____.
What is WWll?
This 1965 act outlawed discrimination in employment and public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
National Farmworkers Association is associated with which of the following historical figures?
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Three broad trends emerged following the civil war that affected the population, they included industrialization, ___________, and __________.
What is urbanization and immigration?
President Barack Obama’s health-care reform plan is entitled the:
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act?
The Articles of Confederation of 1781 gave the federal government "sole and exclusive authority over _____.
What is the Indian Affairs?
______ were neighborhood-based centers where students, humanitarians, and others lived to help people living in poverty improve their lives and communities.
What are Settlement houses?
This African American social reformer was known for anti-lynching activism and community organizing.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
The _____ channeled funds to finance various public works such as building roads, cataloging resources in libraries, digging drainage ditches, and renovating parks.
What is The Civilian Works Administration?
The agreement addressing the rights of Mexicans living in the ceded regions of the United States in 1848 was ______.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The most famous Native American protest group is called:
What is the American Indian Movement?
A category of the Social Security Act that established public assistance for the elderly (Old Age Assistance); dependent children in single-parent families, and children with disabilities, (Aid to Dependent Children); and people who are blind (Aid to the Blind)
What is Public Assistance?
Founder of the National Urban League, he advocated for racial equality and urban support programs
Who is George Edmund Haynes?
Name the three elements of the Social Security Act of 1935.
What are Social Insurance, Public Assistance, and Health Services?
Blatant racism and apprehension that Chinese immigrants were stealing jobs from their white counterparts resulted in the Chinese [answer0] of 1882.
What is the exclusion act?
The _____ mental health movement emphasized specialized psychiatric units and psychotherapy.
What is Mental hygiene?
This was a category of the Social Security Act that established old-age insurance (pensions) for the elderly; unemployment insurance; and worker’s compensation
What is Social Insurance?