Supreme Court rulings | Early Social Welfare Policies in America | Social Reformers | Late 1800's, early 1900's | MISCELLANEOUS |
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What was Plessy v. Ferguson
1896 Supreme Court Ruling that upheld the 'separate but equal' doctrine
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What are the Elizabethan Poor Laws?
These are the British laws that formed America's social welfare policies
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Who was Dorothea Dix?
Worked tirelessly to advocate for reforms in the treatment of the mentally ill
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What was the Progressive Era?
Settlement Houses, the rise of COS's, and the roots of social work were found in this early 1900's era
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What were Jim Crow laws?
These laws, which enforced segregation, remained in place in some southern states until overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1965
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What was Brown vs. Board of Education
1954 ruling that overturned 'separate but equal' and found school segregation illegal
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What was indoor relief?
Assistance provided to the indigent in institutions such as almshouses
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Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
This Civil rights activitist was a special advisor to Roosevelt on minority affairs, and In 1936, became the director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration.
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What were mother's pensions?
State funded programs of public assistance begun in the early 1900's, the foundation of later social welfare programs
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What is the Suffragette movement?
This movement fought for women's right to vote, which didn't happen until 1919, with the passage of the 19th amendment
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What was Loving v. Virginia
Ruling finding that Virginia's antimiscegenation law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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What was outdoor relief?
Assistance provided to the indigent in their own homes
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Who was Jane Addams
Founder of Hull House
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What were friendly visitors?
Where very early social work found its roots, these volunteers attempted to repair the moral souls of the impoverished
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What was the New Deal?
This major package of social welfare benefits focused on relief for the unemployment, recovery for the economy, and reform of the banking system that had failed.
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What is Marbury v. Wainright
1963 decision finding that an Indigent defendant must be afforded legal representation at no cost
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What were the Orphan Trains?
Early form of foster care, taking children from overcrowded urban areas and placing them across the country with families
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Who was Frederick Douglas
An escaped slave who became a prominent social activist, author and public speaker, and a leader in the abolitionist movement
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What is the Settlement House movement?
This movement focused on social reform, & tried to increase social interaction between diverse classes and ethnic groups, and volunteers lived in the communities they worked in.
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What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
A New Deal program, this is a federally controlled corporation that built dams, brought electricity to the south, improved river navigation, helped control flooding, and put people to work.
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What is Roe V. Wade
1973 ruling finding that woman's due process rights under the 14th amendment include the right to make post-pregnancy decisions privately with her physician
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What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Federal agency formed after the Civil War (April, 1865) to provide a variety of aid to newly freed African Americans in the South
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Who was Charles Loring Brace?
Initiated the Orphan Trains as a way to care for poor children in overcrowded urban areas
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Who was Herbert Hoover?
After a major economic crisis, this one-term president argued that federal relief was a violation of state's rights and relief was best delivered voluntarily.
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What is the Social Security Act?
This was major and sweeping federal legislation passed in 1935 that has been the cornerstone of US social policy ever since.
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