Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need"Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need, Sixth Edition" describes and analyzes the ideas that have shaped the history of social welfare from the Colonial Period to the present day. Using original documents from each respective period through the current Bush Administration, this classic text examines the history of events and ideas that have shaped American social welfare policy. Coverage of economic developments, the impact of voluntarism, the impact of privatization helps students to understand the context of social welfare movements and policies, while material on trends in the justice system include the immigration debate New To This Edition
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... land area reached to the Pacific Ocean , and its northern and southern borders were fixed . The thirteen original states had increased to thirty - three . In 1790 the original thirteen states contained 94 percent of the total population ...
... lands within it , and that to the States in which there are no such public lands land scrip shall be issued to the amount of their distributive shares , respectively , said scrip not to be entered by said States , but to be sold by them ...
... land ownership during the period . The Dawes Act of 1887 had di- vided their land . But , in too many cases , Native American land was allotted to white people . In 1934 , the Indian Reorganization Act helped end this practice ...