Exam 6: An Overview of Social Welfare and Social Work History

The Great Depression was initiated by the _____ of 1929.

The Speenhamland system was a very successful policy and is in existence even to this day.

The _____ initially recruited males between 18 and 25 who were receiving public assistance and transported them to revitalize parks in the West.

_____ was one of the founders of perhaps the most famous settlement house in Chicago, called the Hull House, in 1889.

In which of the following landmark rulings in 1954 did the Supreme Court overturn the separate but equal doctrine and declare that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?

List the ways in which the Civil Rights Act of 1964 attempted to decrease discrimination.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the _____, a vigorous plan that created a wide range of social programs and significantly extended federal control in social welfare matters.

An effort to fashion a "Great Society" was initiated by President:

_____ was a program that recruited impoverished youths ages 16-24 from disadvantaged urban and rural communities, and provided them with residential training, employment, and work skills.

The _____ in 1917 gave all people born on the island of Puerto Rico U.S. citizenship.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship.

In 1955, seven separate professional organizations came together to form the:

_____ were neighborhood-based centers where interested students, humanitarians, and others lived to help people in poverty improve their lives and communities.

To what extent did U.S. policy concerning American Indians reflect a racist orientation rather than appreciation for and nurturance of cultural differences?

Dorothea Dix was an advocate for the American Indian assimilation into the mainstream culture in the United States.

_____ wrote Social Diagnosis, the first book to address professional social work practice, in 1917.

The _____ movement, following the mental health movement, emphasized human treatment in structured institutional settings.

The Social Security Act was passed in _____.

The Social Security Act was passed during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency.

Explain why the following women were important to social welfare history: Jane Addams Mary Richmond