STUDY GUIDE
HS 101 Intro to Human Services
1. The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601
Kept the administration of poor relief at the local level.
2. Settlement houses
Neighborhood-based facilities established in most urban centers
to bring together people of different socio-economic and cultural
backgrounds to share knowledge, values, and skills for their mutual
benefit.
3. Hull House
The first and most famous of the Settlement Houses founded in
Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
4. Prior to the 1929 Stock Market Crash
There was an illusion of economic stability throughout the 1920’s.
Because of the rising income of the rich, the stock market began to
soar. It appeared to be a sound investment. Even those who could not
afford it, bought on credit. When stock prices fell, people could not
pay their loans and they lost everything.
5. The Great Depression
The most catastrophic economic crisis the United States has ever
seen.
6. The New Deal
The name President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of
programs and promises he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the
goal of giving reform to the people and economy of the United States
during the Great Depression.
7. Social Security Act.
The most important among all the programs President Roosevelt
initiated.
8. The National Mental Health Act of 1946
Provided a funded mechanism for research and training
programs and for state assistance in establishing community mental
health service.
9. The Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Case
Ruled that separate public schools for black and white students
denied black children equal educational opportunities and thus violated
the 14th Amendment. This victory paved the way for integration and
the Civil Rights Movement.
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