The Four Primary Models of Disability - correct answer 1. Biomedical
2. Functional
3. Environmental
4. Sociopolitical
Antidisability legislation began in - correct answer 1882 and continued
through 1924, with some original laws in effect until the 1980s
"Undesirable" - correct answer Was used to describe people from any race,
ethnicity, or religion, and/or with a disability who were believed to be more likely to pass on less-than-
desirable traits to their offspring
The first major Immigration Act in 1882 - correct answer Excluded people with
mental and physical defects (as well as those considered criminal or immoral, problems seen at the time
as closely related to mental defect)
1891 revised Immigration Act - correct answer Key wording change made
restrictions even more discretionary regarding PWDs.
"Any lunatic, idiot, or any person likely to become a public charge"
IRL - correct answer Immigration Restriction League (est. 1894)
Primary focus was to "carry on a general educational campaign for more effective restriction and
selection;" prevent America from becoming an "asylum for the poor and oppressed of every land."
, Literacy requirements imposed on all immigrants by - correct answer 1896
Immigration laws broadened to become more restrictive - correct answer
1903-1907
1907 Immigration Act - correct answer More specific and harsher
discriminatory language appeared in legislation
Also the first to require a medical certificate for persons judged to be "mentally or physically defective"
The number of individuals excluded because they were likely to become a public charge or were
mentally or physically defective - correct answer 1895: 1,720
1905: Greater than 8,000
1910: More than 16,000
Protests against New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau demanding jobs - correct answer
Spring of 1935
Franklin D. Roosevelt - correct answer Was a member of the LPH, had polio
that he kept mostly hidden from the public, and strived for rehabilitation of those with disabilities
Charles Darwin's 1859 book - correct answer Drove the ideology of the early
immigration Acts
Sir Francis Galton - correct answer A cousin of Darwin, focused his studies on
mathematics and meteorology, established eugenics in 1883
Eugenics - correct answer The science of improving stock; to give more
suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they
otherwise would have had
The concept of eugenics reached America around - correct answer 1900
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