T6801 - social welfare policy midterm
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The _________________ Supreme Court case was won in 1954 to desegregate schools,
declaring "Separate but Equal" unconstitutional? - correct answer ✔✔ Brown vs Board of
education
If a person hit hard times and needed help, who were they required to ask first for support
according to the Elizabethan Poor Laws? - correct answer ✔✔ Their own family
Freedman's Bureau was established to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by
emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education. The Bureau was
created and became an agency of the War Department during which period of US History? -
correct answer ✔✔ Post-Civil War "Reconstruction Period" 1965
_______________ was an American educator, author, & orator, he taught black skills to
overcome oppression. He's best known for founding the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black
college? - correct answer ✔✔ Booker T Washington
In the early 20th century, some employers hired children laborers over adults for some jobs
mainly because: - correct answer ✔✔ Children could be paid less and were less likely to
organize into unions
Mary Richmond wrote "Social Diagnosis" (1917) a classic in social work literature, what was it
about? - correct answer ✔✔ The first form of case management work
_____________ populations were excluded from benefiting from the American Poor Laws? -
correct answer ✔✔ Native Americans & Enslaved African people
, Relief provided to those in need while they can remain in their own homes, was known as
outdoor relief? - correct answer ✔✔ True
The 1935 Social Security Act established a federal safety net, the Act created the following
programs:
a) Old Age Insurance
b) Federal Unemployment Insurance
c) Food Stamps & Medicare
d) Aid to Dependent Children
e) a, b & d
f) All the Above - correct answer ✔✔ e) a, b & d
[a) Old Age Insurance
b) Federal Unemployment Insurance
d) Aid to Dependent Children]
After a bill has been drafted, sent to a conference committee and approved, what happens next,
where does the bill go next? - correct answer ✔✔ The Legislative Branch (House of
Representatives & Senate)
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, a decades-long struggle by African Americans
accomplished the following:
a) Eliminated racism in the U.S.
b) Eliminated segregated schools in the U.S.
c) Passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968
d) Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
e) c & d
questions n answers rated A+
The _________________ Supreme Court case was won in 1954 to desegregate schools,
declaring "Separate but Equal" unconstitutional? - correct answer ✔✔ Brown vs Board of
education
If a person hit hard times and needed help, who were they required to ask first for support
according to the Elizabethan Poor Laws? - correct answer ✔✔ Their own family
Freedman's Bureau was established to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by
emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education. The Bureau was
created and became an agency of the War Department during which period of US History? -
correct answer ✔✔ Post-Civil War "Reconstruction Period" 1965
_______________ was an American educator, author, & orator, he taught black skills to
overcome oppression. He's best known for founding the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black
college? - correct answer ✔✔ Booker T Washington
In the early 20th century, some employers hired children laborers over adults for some jobs
mainly because: - correct answer ✔✔ Children could be paid less and were less likely to
organize into unions
Mary Richmond wrote "Social Diagnosis" (1917) a classic in social work literature, what was it
about? - correct answer ✔✔ The first form of case management work
_____________ populations were excluded from benefiting from the American Poor Laws? -
correct answer ✔✔ Native Americans & Enslaved African people
, Relief provided to those in need while they can remain in their own homes, was known as
outdoor relief? - correct answer ✔✔ True
The 1935 Social Security Act established a federal safety net, the Act created the following
programs:
a) Old Age Insurance
b) Federal Unemployment Insurance
c) Food Stamps & Medicare
d) Aid to Dependent Children
e) a, b & d
f) All the Above - correct answer ✔✔ e) a, b & d
[a) Old Age Insurance
b) Federal Unemployment Insurance
d) Aid to Dependent Children]
After a bill has been drafted, sent to a conference committee and approved, what happens next,
where does the bill go next? - correct answer ✔✔ The Legislative Branch (House of
Representatives & Senate)
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, a decades-long struggle by African Americans
accomplished the following:
a) Eliminated racism in the U.S.
b) Eliminated segregated schools in the U.S.
c) Passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968
d) Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
e) c & d
