CCAP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Settlement House -
correct answer ✅Non religious facility where there was education
and cultural opportunites offered to help those in need to
overcome poverty
Great Depression -
correct answer ✅1930s poverty expaned from the margins to
middle class 1/3 nation was ill housed, ill clad and ill norished -
Rooselvelt
New Deal -
correct answer ✅Rooselvelt - federal programs created in
response to the depression - Federal Emergecny Releif Admin,
Workers progress Admin, Social Security Admin, Civil Work Admin,
National Youth and Civilian Conservation Corp. were created.
People moved from rural to urban area, lots of crowding, urban
riots, civil unrest, discrimination
Civil Rights MOvement -
correct answer ✅movement which ended legalized segregation
and discrimination, decades long. Black American moved north
looking for work, high unemployment and still lots of social unrest
,CCAP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Presidents Council on Juvenile Delinquency -
correct answer ✅established by Kennedy's admin, created to
address intercity crime rates among youth. Early form of
Community Action
Ford Foundations Grey Area program -
correct answer ✅zone of deteriorating relstate which lies between
downtown and subburan areas. It was set out to demonstrate that
education and programs could bring hope and opportunity to those
in need.
Appalachia series -
correct answer ✅Writtenby Homer Bigart for New York Times.
Brought national attention to problems in the region. Kennedy
appointed cmte to combat economic decay in the appalchia region
Michael Harrington -
correct answer ✅wrote the book The Other America - first look at
poverty in AMerica. showed poverty being a victum of their
enviroment
,CCAP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
John Kenneth Galbeith -
correct answer ✅noted $1000 or less to be the poverty level in
America
Explain the social climate in the 1960s -
correct answer ✅fed gov was increasing their interest in poverty
high unemployment rate
social unrest due to civil rights, voting rights and equal
opportunities
What is maximum feasibility participation -
correct answer ✅everyone involved in the solution from local
officials, community members and the poor
President Kennedy term -
correct answer ✅1/20/1961 died 11/22/1963
Lyndon B Johnson -
correct answer ✅President 11/23/1963 - 1/20/1969
, CCAP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Explain the Economic Opportunity Act -
correct answer ✅create OEO - Office of Economic Opportunity
8/22/1964
Titles 6
Administers coordinators for programs
who declared the war on poverty, when and where -
correct answer ✅President JOhnson, 1/8/1963 - state of the union
address
What were the programs administered by OEO -
correct answer ✅Community Action Program
Job Corp
Volunteers in Service to America )VISATA)
Neighborhood Youth Corp
Explain the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
correct answer ✅Johnson - created to eliminate employment
discrimination, public accommodation and transportation - treat
everyone the same
(Grade A+)
Settlement House -
correct answer ✅Non religious facility where there was education
and cultural opportunites offered to help those in need to
overcome poverty
Great Depression -
correct answer ✅1930s poverty expaned from the margins to
middle class 1/3 nation was ill housed, ill clad and ill norished -
Rooselvelt
New Deal -
correct answer ✅Rooselvelt - federal programs created in
response to the depression - Federal Emergecny Releif Admin,
Workers progress Admin, Social Security Admin, Civil Work Admin,
National Youth and Civilian Conservation Corp. were created.
People moved from rural to urban area, lots of crowding, urban
riots, civil unrest, discrimination
Civil Rights MOvement -
correct answer ✅movement which ended legalized segregation
and discrimination, decades long. Black American moved north
looking for work, high unemployment and still lots of social unrest
,CCAP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Presidents Council on Juvenile Delinquency -
correct answer ✅established by Kennedy's admin, created to
address intercity crime rates among youth. Early form of
Community Action
Ford Foundations Grey Area program -
correct answer ✅zone of deteriorating relstate which lies between
downtown and subburan areas. It was set out to demonstrate that
education and programs could bring hope and opportunity to those
in need.
Appalachia series -
correct answer ✅Writtenby Homer Bigart for New York Times.
Brought national attention to problems in the region. Kennedy
appointed cmte to combat economic decay in the appalchia region
Michael Harrington -
correct answer ✅wrote the book The Other America - first look at
poverty in AMerica. showed poverty being a victum of their
enviroment
,CCAP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
John Kenneth Galbeith -
correct answer ✅noted $1000 or less to be the poverty level in
America
Explain the social climate in the 1960s -
correct answer ✅fed gov was increasing their interest in poverty
high unemployment rate
social unrest due to civil rights, voting rights and equal
opportunities
What is maximum feasibility participation -
correct answer ✅everyone involved in the solution from local
officials, community members and the poor
President Kennedy term -
correct answer ✅1/20/1961 died 11/22/1963
Lyndon B Johnson -
correct answer ✅President 11/23/1963 - 1/20/1969
, CCAP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Explain the Economic Opportunity Act -
correct answer ✅create OEO - Office of Economic Opportunity
8/22/1964
Titles 6
Administers coordinators for programs
who declared the war on poverty, when and where -
correct answer ✅President JOhnson, 1/8/1963 - state of the union
address
What were the programs administered by OEO -
correct answer ✅Community Action Program
Job Corp
Volunteers in Service to America )VISATA)
Neighborhood Youth Corp
Explain the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
correct answer ✅Johnson - created to eliminate employment
discrimination, public accommodation and transportation - treat
everyone the same
