Deck 7: An Overview of Social Welfare and Social Work History

Question 1

The mammoth growth in manufacturing and technology that occurred in the U.S. between the Civil War and the early 20th century was called:

A) The Great Society
B) War on Poverty
C) The Good Life
D) Industrialization

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Feudalism was the principal type of political organization in Europe until the:

A) Mid-1300s
B) Mid-1400s
C) Mid-1500s
D) Mid-1600s

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated a package of programs called the:

A) Great Society
B) War on Poverty
C) New Deal
D) Great Depression

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The _____ established the residency requirement in England that required potential aid recipients to have dwelled in a particular location for a designated time.

A) Elizabethan Poor Law
B) Law of Settlement
C) Social Welfare Act
D) Statutes of Laborers

Question 5

The English Elizabethan Poor Law was established in:

A) 1345
B) 1592
C) 1601
D) 1773

Question 6

Charity Organization Societies:

A) Initially used friendly visitors who tried to help people figure out how to solve their problems
B) Stressed the empowerment of self-sufficiency
C) Sent ministers, students, or humanitarians to live in the poor slums to help alleviate the conditions of capitalism
D) Were started by Jane Addams

Question 7

The _____ provided federal grants to the states for people in need and established camps for displaced persons, provided loans to college students, and purchased land for tenant farmers.

A) The Public Works Administration
B) The Civilian Works Administration
C) The Works Progress Administration
D) The Federal Emergency Relief Act

Question 8

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was passed in:

A) 1900
B) 1910
C) 1920
D) 1930

Question 9

The _______ was a system of supplementing the income of all poor people so everyone would have a minimum income necessary for survival.

A) Speenhamland System
B) Elizabethan Poor Law
C) Jones Act
D) Mittanian Agreement

Question 10

_____began a settlement house in Chicago called the Hull House.

A) Mary Richmond
B) Jane Addams
C) Dorothea Dix
D) Etta Wheeler

Question 11

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

A) Mary Richmond
B) Jane Addams
C) Dorothea Dix
D) Etta Wheeler

Question 12

The ______ 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.

A) White House Conference on Dependent Children
B) Congressional Treaty on Indian Rights
C) International Summit on Mental Health
D) National Policy Convention

Question 13

The _____ channeled funds to finance various public works such as building roads, cataloging resources in libraries, digging drainage ditches, and renovating parks.

A) The Public Works Administration
B) The Civilian Works Administration
C) The Works Progress Administration
D) The Federal Emergency Relief Act

Question 14

All of the following is true regarding the early poor laws in the American colonies except:

A) The laws resembled or were identical to those in England
B) Colonists viewed the poor as a natural part of the social order
C) Services reflected a mix of public and private collaboration
D) The colonists reflected a residual view of social welfare

Question 15

After feudalism's demise in Europe:

A) People fled the urban areas looking for work in the rural areas
B) Cholera destroyed almost a third of the English population
C) A law was passed restricting the unemployed from moving about
D) A law was passed forbidding impotent poor from begging

Question 16

The Civil War occurred from:

A) 1780-1785
B) 1801-1802
C) 1861-1865
D) 1890-1891

Question 17

_____ were institutions in England where the impotent poor were placed and provided food and shelter.

A) Welfare shelters
B) Missions
C) Speenhamlands
D) Almshouses

Question 18

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

A) Almshouses
B) Poorhouses
C) Settlement houses
D) Charity organization societies

Question 19

The _____ was considered the first piece of legislation establishing coherent, consistent public support for needy people through local taxes.

A) Statute of Laborers
B) Social Welfare Act
C) Begger Tax
D) Elizabethan Poor Law

Question 20

The intent of the _____ was to stimulate depressed industries by contracting with private businesses to build extensive public facilities. Projects included airports, dams, flood-control projects, and military installations.

A) The Public Works Administration
B) The Civilian Works Administration
C) The Civilian Conservation Corps
D) The Works Progress Administration

Question 21

The _____ supported the work of artists, musicians, writers, and scholars-provided jobs from heavy construction to the painting of murals in local libraries and orchestral performances in the schools.

A) The Public Works Administration
B) The Civilian Conservation Corps
C) The Works Progress Administration
D) The Federal Emergency Relief Act

Question 22

The Civil Rights Act of _____ was the most important piece of civil rights legislation since the Civil War.

A) 1959
B) 1961
C) 1964
D) 1969

Question 23

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

A) Puerto Rican Territorial Treaty
B) Jones Act
C) Island Territory Settlement
D) Immigration and Citizenship Act

Question 24

_____developed and coordinated efforts by neighborhood organizations to fight poverty and improve social and economic conditions for community residents.

A) Operation Head Start
B) Job Corps
C) Volunteers in Service to America
D) Community Action Program

Question 25

_____ provided assistance for older adults; dependent children in single-parent families; children with disabilities; and people who are blind.

A) Public assistance
B) Social insurance
C) Dependent children assistance
D) Older Americans Act

Question 26

_____ provided preschoolers with resources designed to meet educational, health, and recreational needs through the year.

A) Operation Head Start
B) Job Corps
C) Volunteers in Service to America
D) Upward Bound

Question 27

_____ targeted school-age children and presented them with special education resources and incentives to prevent them from dropping out of school.

A) Operation Head Start
B) Job Corps
C) Volunteers in Service to America
D) Upward Bound

Question 28

Mid-eighteenth century John Locke's tabula rasa approach suggested that children:

A) Be placed in apprenticeships
B) Were inherently pure and good
C) Required supervision to keep them busy and out of trouble
D) Be trained to develop a useful skill

Question 29

The most famous Native American protest group is called:

A) Native Americans Unite
B) American Indian Movement
C) Bureau of Indian Affairs
D) Native Land Recovery Group

Question 30

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Act was passed during the _____ presidency.

A) Ronald Reagan
B) George H. W. Bush
C) Bill Clinton
D) George W. Bush

Question 31

______ provided benefits related to certain designated risks assumed by working people.

A) Public assistance
B) Social insurance
C) Dependent children assistance
D) Older Americans Act

Question 32

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land:

A) Was the first federal welfare agency
B) Was placed under the auspices of the Interior Department
C) Allocated property to over 45% of eligible African Americans
D) Was established by Congress in 1825

Question 33

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

A) The Civilian Works Administration
B) The Civilian Conservation Corps
C) The Works Progress Administration
D) The Federal Emergency Relief Act

Question 34

The _____ mental health movement emphasized provision of care in people's own communities.

A) Mental hygiene
B) Moral treatment
C) Deinstitutionalization

Question 35

Cesar Chavez formed the:

A) United Grape Growers
B) Agricultural Consortium
C) California Migrant Worker Society
D) National Farm Workers Association

Question 36

_____ involved people recruited to work in urban and rural neighborhoods experiencing economic and cultural problems.

A) Job Corps
B) Volunteers in Service to America
C) Upward Bound
D) Community Action Program

Question 37

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

A) Operation Head Start
B) Job Corps
C) Volunteers in Service to America
D) Upward Bound

Question 38

The Immigration Acts of ______ halted Asian immigration almost altogether, and that lasted until 1968.

A) 1890
B) 1901
C) 1924
D) 1943

Question 39

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 was:

A) Stevenson v. Public Education
B) Thomas v. California School Board
C) Brown v. Board of Education
D) King v. King

Question 40

President Barack Obama's health-care reform plan is entitled the:

A) Patient Bill of Rights
B) Title XXI
C) Personal Medical Insurance Act
D) Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act

Question 41

The Great Society was a program initiated by Franklin
D. Roosevelt.

Question 42

The Speenhamland system was a very successful policy, and is still in existence today.

Question 43

In 1919, schools of social work in Canada and the U.S. joined together to form what is now known as the:

A) American Association of Schools of Social Work
B) North American Social Work School Association
C) Social Work School Association
D) Schools of Social Work Association of America

Question 44

In _____, Brown v. Board of Education was decided.

A) 1601
B) 1770
C) 1954
D) 1964

Question 45

All of the following are true regarding the Reverend Charles Loring Brace except:

A) Was one of the founders of Hull House
B) Gathered up thousands of juvenile paupers from the New York City streets and sent them to live with farm families in the Midwest
C) Believed that farmers were the ideal citizens and that farming was the ideal occupation
D) He started New York's Children's Aid Society

Question 46

The Council on Social Work Education made accreditation available to BSW programs in:

A) 1958
B) 1974
C) 1981
D) 1989

Question 47

Passage of Americans with Disabilities Act was in:

A) 1865
B) 1929
C) 1935
D) 1990

Question 48

Early poor laws in the American colonies frequently placed dependent children in apprenticeships.

Question 49

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

A) American Association of Social Work Schools
B) Academy of Social Work
C) Council on Social Work Education
D) National Association of Social Workers

Question 50

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

A) Mental hygiene
B) Moral treatment
C) Deinstitutionalization

Question 51

The Elizabethan Poor Law is considered the first piece of legislation establishing coherent, consistent public support for needy people through local taxes.

Question 52

The _____ was the beginning of moral treatment movement in mental health.

A) 1600s
B) 1770s
C) 1950s
D) 1960s

Question 53

The Social Security Act was passed in:

A) 1865
B) 1929
C) 1935
D) 1990

Question 54

As a result of _____ and her followers' efforts, over 30 state mental hospitals were established around the middle of the 1800s.

A) Dorothea Dix
B) Jane Addams
C) Mary Richmond
D) Etta Wheeler

Question 55

The mental hygiene movement occurred in the United States from:

A) 1770s-1900
B) 1900-1945
C) Early 1950s to present

Question 56

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

Question 57

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote.

Question 58

In _____, the Civil Rights Act was passed.

A) 1601
B) 1770
C) 1954
D) 1964

Question 59

The stock market crashed in _____, and initiated the Great Depression.

A) 1865
B) 1929
C) 1935
D) 1990

Question 60

The _____ mental health movement emphasized specialized psychiatric units and psychotherapy.

A) Mental hygiene
B) Moral treatment
C) Deinstitutionalization

Question 61

List the three categories of eligible recipients outlined in the English Elizabethan Poor Law.

Question 62

Under the Freedmen's Bureau, over 25% of eligible African Americans were allocated property.

Question 63

The 1781 Articles of Confederation gave the federal government sole and exclusive authority over Indian affairs.

Question 64

List four programs that were established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.

Question 65

During the 1950s, 85% of social work students selected casework as their orientation of choice.

Question 66

The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed during George W. Bush's presidency.

Question 67

The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act was passed in 2010.

Question 68

The "Trail of Tears" depicts the infamous 1,200-mile journey of the Cherokee nation.

Question 69

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

Question 70

Describe the "trail of tears."

Question 71

The Dawes Act resulted in American Indians regaining 75% of their land.

Question 72

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was initially formed in outrage over the lynching of African Americans.

Question 73

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, when was it signed, and what did it do for the United States?

Question 74

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

Question 75

What are some important events affecting social welfare that happened during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama presidencies?

Question 76

The Indian Removal Act resulted in thousands of American Indians being taken from their own lands and relocated to distant reservations.

Question 77

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

Question 78

In colonial America people with mental illness were placed in almshouses, clustered with the poor and people with other disabilities.

Question 79

The Freedmen's Bureau was placed under the auspices of the Interior Department.

Question 80

The fringe economy refers to President Barack Obama's stimulus plan.