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Social Work in Historical Context MCQ

It was not until 1920 when women were granted the right to vote. Which amendment to the Constitution afforded them the constitutional right?

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Correct Answer: The Nineteenth Amendment

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Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited states from withholding the rights to vote from men due to their race?

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Correct Answer: The Fifteenth Amendment

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Which term best describes the situation when orphans or sick people were sent to orphanages, hospitals, and almshouses?

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Correct Answer: Indoor relief

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During this period in the history, many programs were created, such as Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamp, Job Corps, and Peace Corps. What is this period called?

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Correct Answer: The Great Society

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In a bid to stop the welfare queen classification of single mothers who received benefits, which program stripped welfare of its status as an entitlement program?

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Correct Answer: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families

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What was the first federal law to regulate immigration in the United States?

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Correct Answer: Chinese Exclusion Act

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Who is associated with the beginnings of the Charity Organization Societies?

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Correct Answer: Mary Richmond

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Which body administers the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS)?

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Correct Answer: The Council on Social Work Education

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______ is a federal/state program that provides medical assistance to low-income people.

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Correct Answer: Medicaid

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According to the text, ______ and the New Deal greatly influenced social policy in the United States.

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Correct Answer: Elizabethan Poor Laws

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The War on Drugs describes a coined by Richard Nixon, this term refers to a set of _______ enacted and implemented through the Clinton administration.

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Correct Answer: Policies

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The helping functions that governments provide for the social welfare of its populace is called

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Correct Answer: The welfare state

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A shift from a primarily rural, farming society to one where the majority of the population resided in cities is called

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Correct Answer: Urbanization

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Star Wars is the popular name for funding the Strategic Defense Initiative, part of an increase in overall defense spending during a time of decreased spending on ______ programs .

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Correct Answer: Social

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An adaptation of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, Social Darwinism championed techniques such as sterilization to curb social ills. This discredited theory was not grounded in evidence and led to unethical policies such as eugenics is called

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Correct Answer: Social Darwinism

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Settlement House Movement (SHM) explains that it originated in_________ and was adopted in many U.S. urban areas with large immigrant populations. Early settlement house workers lived and worked together with people in the communities that they served as partners. It saw poverty and other problems as rooted primarily in systemic problems rather than individual failure.

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Correct Answer: England

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Approximately decade-long period following the Civil War during which the defeated Southern states were rebuilt under supervision of the federal government is called

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Correct Answer: Reconstruction

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Reaganomics defined the named for Ronald Reagan, the belief that regulatory and tax policies favorable to businesses stimulate _______ growth, also known as “supply-side” economics, and deregulation of business

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Correct Answer: Economic

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Principle of less eligibility explains the idea that any assistance should either be so meagre, or contingent upon ________ so onerous, as to make it undesirable in comparison to any other options for sustenance

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Correct Answer: Conditions

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Overseers of the poor describes the officials who were tasked with administering and supervising aid to people in poverty in England beginning in the 16th century, a practice that was transplanted to parts of the colonial U.S.

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Correct Answer: True

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Assistance that allowed people to remain in their own homes is called

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Correct Answer: Outdoor relief

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New deal is a set of federal relief programs enacted by President Franklin Roosevelt in _______ in response to the Great Depression

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Correct Answer: 1932

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Progressive-era journalists who exposed poor conditions and corruption, often through shocking description, to bring attention to them and inspire reform is called

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Correct Answer: Muckrakers

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The anti-Communist panic stoked by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy that cost the jobs of thousands of suspected Communists or Communist sympathizers and the persecution of many more is called

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Correct Answer: McCarthyism

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Indoor relief describes the provision of assistance requiring removal of individuals from their own residence into public institutions such as orphanages, hospitals, or alms houses

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Correct Answer: True

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A period of widespread economic hardship that last approximately 10 years beginning with the stock market crash of ____ is called great depression

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Correct Answer: 1929

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Elizabethan Poor Laws explained the legislation that enacted in England in ____ that was seen as the beginning of public responsibility for people who were unable to meet their own needs

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Correct Answer: 1601

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Shifting authority and _______ from higher to lower levels of government (e.g., from federal to state or state to local) is called devolution

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Correct Answer: Responsibilities

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Charity Organization Societies, A ______ of early social workers that believed in assessing and meeting social needs through systematized and verifiable process. Generally, COS viewed individual misfortune as due to character flaws or poor choices.

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Correct Answer: Movement

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Contact with America is developed by Newt Gingrich, this outlined a vision of reducing taxes and limiting government

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Correct Answer: True

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A series of laws and regulations enacted in the post-Civil War South to curtail social, economic, and civil rights of African Americans is called

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Correct Answer: Black codes

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