SOCIAL WELFARE PIONEERS
Known as the Mother of Social Work, she is a member of the Settlement House Movement and one of the first paid social workers employed by the Charity Organization Societies to train workers to help coordinate applications, investigate financial means, and determine eligibility for assistance for welfare programs.
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?
The founder of Chicago’s Hull House, which is still the most recognizable name among the many settlement houses that operated in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Who is Jane Addams?
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
During the 1950s, people began developing the perspective that individuals are best served in their own communities with outpatient treatment and psychotropic drug therapy instead of remanding them to asylums. This was the beginning of the __________ in Mental Health.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
This 1965 act outlawed discrimination in employment and public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
Two pioneers of the Women's Suffrage Movement who attended or organized the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, began working together in 1851 until one died in 1902
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Three broad trends emerged following the civil war that affected the population, they included industrialization, ___________, and __________.
What is urbanization and immigration?
This law resulted in thousands of American Indians forcibly removed from their lands and relocated to "reservations", and the denial use of language and religion and customs for the people
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
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 as one of the leaders in the Women Suffrage Movement and 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?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt combated the impact of the Great Depression with the development of a series of wide-reaching economic, social, and political reforms, also known as the ______.
What is the New Deal?
The most famous Native American protest group is called:
What is the American Indian Movement?
A category of the Social Security Act that established wide-ranging 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?
She was a leader in the Women's Suffrage Movement as a recently freed African American woman; an advocate for abolition, temperance, civil and women's rights in the 19th century in her speech "Ain't I A Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Name the three elements of the Social Security Act of 1935.
What are Social Insurance, Public Assistance, and Health Services?
Blatant racism and apprehension due to the perspective that Chinese immigrants were stealing jobs from their white counterparts resulted in the denial of immigration status to this group with the passage of the ____ ______ _____ of 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
The 1970s ended this war as public grew tired of spending money on programs with few results.
War on Poverty
This was a category of the Social Security Act that established old-age insurance (pensions) for the elderly; unemployment insurance; and worker’s compensation. Eligibility is determined by how long you paid into it.
What is Social Insurance?