Mid Term Exam 1 - people

Question 1

Jane Addams and Ellen Starr

Answer 1

Founded Chicago’s Hull House in 1889

Question 2

Mary Richmond

Answer 2

Early social worker published several books including Friendly visiting among the poor and Social Diagnosis, which provided a body of knowledge for the professionalization of social work

Question 3

Lugenia Burns Hope

Answer 3

Founded Black Women;s club in Atlanta

Question 4

Susan B Anthony

Answer 4

An American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement

Question 5

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Answer 5

Strong anti-lynching, promoted uplist of African American women

Question 6

Susan Laflesche

Answer 6

First Native American Woman Physician

Question 7

Charles Eastman Alexander

Answer 7

Founding member of the Society of American Indians, worked for better education, civil rights, and healthcare

Question 8

Whitney Young Jr,

Answer 8

Chief director of Urban League, worked for racial equality and fought specifically against workplace discrimination toward African Americans

Question 9

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Answer 9

Established a vocational school for African American Women

Question 10

Mary McLeod Bethune

Answer 10

Founded national foundation of Negro women to improve racial conditions nationally and internationally

Question 11

Lyndon B Johnson

Answer 11

Took over after assassination of JFK, The Great Society

Question 12

Maggie Lena Walker

Answer 12

First female bank president

Question 13

Franklin D Roosevelt

Answer 13

president during the Great Depression who sought to lessen the effects through relief and reform

Question 14

Susette LaFlesche

Answer 14

Spokesperson and lecturer for Native American rights, First published Native American artist and writer

Question 15

Frances Perkins

Answer 15

US Secretary of Labor who was first woman in US history to be appointed in the President’s cabinet under FDR, advocated for improved working conditions/child labor legislation, and unemployment compensation

Question 16

Ana Dumois

Answer 16

helped create neighborhood health care facilities in recent years.