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-Signed into law by George H. W. Bush
-edited in 2009 -civil rights law -prohibits discrimination on public entities and public transportation -prohibits discrimination and ensures equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in employment
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
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Sir Francis Galton
Who said “that human defectives [were] increasing at such an alarming rate that, unless some efficient methods [were] devised for keeping them in check, they [would] endanger the welfare of the entire race.”
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Cerebral Palsy
Epilepsy Muscular dystrophy Rheumatoid arthritis Cystic fibrosis etc.
Name 3 physical disabilities
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ruled forced sterilization not illegal
advanced eugenics agenda
What did the 1927 Buck v. Bell case enforce?
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aims to end discrimination in employment, education, access to goods, facilities and services, including larger private clubs and transport services, buying or renting land or property, including making it easier for people with disabilities to rent prope
What is the Disability Discrimination Act?
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Charles Davenport
Who said “Only by breeding for superiority would the numbers of the weak and unfit diminish….”
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Mental disabilities
Autism, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Bipolar disorder, and ADD are all examples of...?
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Kenneth Donaldson was put into the Florida State Hospital for 15 years following his diagnosis as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1943. He sued the hospital, specifically Dr. J. B. O'Connor, for the violation of his constitutional rights on the grounds that
Summarize event: 1975 - O'Connor v. Donaldson
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promoting equal opportunities in employment for disabled people
What is the Disability Rights Commission Act
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During WWII, Hitler and Nazi Germany took on an extreme form of eugenics in the form of extermination of all who did not meet the standards of the society (for example, Jews in their opinion)
How are WW2 and Eugenics connected?
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What is the definition of disabled?
An individual with a disability is defined by the ADA as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived
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Lockett v. Ohio
Rennie v. Klein
What two important court cases happened in 1978?
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Urban Mass Transportation Act
1970 President Richard M. Nixon signs, which requires that public transportation be accessible to the disabled in order to qualify for federal funding. Architectural Barriers Act 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs, aimed
What did both the Architectural Barriers Act and the Urban Mass Transportation Act similarly aim to do?
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((strong will survive while the weak die off))
Disabled people were viewed as weak, so it was used in America to justify the sterilization of disabled persons, citing them as useless to society and a hazard to the posterity of Americans, garnering support
How did Darwinism and the Survival of the Fittest apply to disabled people
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Some disabilities are not visible by appearance, but more often physical disabilities are.
What are the differences between mental and physical disabilities?
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allowed for sterilization (without consent) of individuals found to be “feebleminded, insane, depressed, mentally handicapped, epileptic and other.” Alcoholics, criminals and drug addicts were also sterilized.
1924 - The Commonwealth of Virginia passed a state law...what did it say?
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