AMERICA FINAL EXAM 2026 ACTUAL TEST
PAPER COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
◉ 1920. Answer: Pest houses and Almshouses
◉ 1722. Answer: Royal Hospital opens in New Orleans
◉ 1736. Answer: Bellevue and Charity Hospital open.
◉ Oldest hospital still operating. Answer: Bellevue
◉ 1751. Answer: Pennsylvania Hospital opened by Benjamin Franklin
and Dr. Thomas Bond
◉ 1796. Answer: Smallpox vaccine developed by Edward Jenner
◉ 1798. Answer: Outbreak of yellow fever in New York reaching
epidemic levels
◉ First federal health law, what year. Answer: Act for the relief of the
sick and disabled seaman
, ◉ 1813. Answer: Vaccine Act
◉ 1800s. Answer: Emma Goldman, Anarchist Revolutionary (birth
control, women's equity, free speech) Dorothea Dix: Mental asylums
◉ 1847. Answer: AMA founded
◉ 1861-1865. Answer: Civil War
◉ 1865. Answer: Freedmen's Bureau established
◉ 1876. Answer: Johns Hopkins university established: William Osler
("father of modern medicine), rubber gloves first used in the operating
room by Caroline Hampton
◉ 1882. Answer: Clara Barton, Red Cross,
◉ 1889 in Chicago. Answer: Hull House founded by Jane Addams and
Ellen Gates Starr. Settlement house opened to serve newly arrived
European immigrants
◉ 1889 in Rochester. Answer: Mayo Clinic established, multi specialty
group practice (Will, James and Charles)