History of Family & Consumer Sciences

The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 and Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 also helped to develop & teach home economics on land grant ______.

• college campuses
• curriculum campuses
• rural campuses

Efforts to formalize and teach principles that predate FCS go  back to 

• 1866.
• mid 1700's.
• mid 1800's.
• mid 1900's.

Catherine Beecher Stowe was a 

• educator and reformer.
• educator and economist.
• educator and domestic.
• educator and housekeeper.

The Morrill Act of 1862 ________ the number of land-grant schools in the U.S.

• decreased
• increased
• equaled
• nullified

Ellen Richards was the first woman to  graduate from

• Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts
• MA Institute Of Technology

Courses in __________ Sciences were offered at the land grant schools.

• Consumer
• Domestic
• Family

Ellen Swallow Richards studied

• history
• ecology
• chemistry

Richards was the first _________ to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• man
• person
• woman

In order to educate young women for the household roles these classes were developed

• scientific
• home economics
• water quality

The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 and Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 provided money to expand demonstration work in 

• the inner city.
• rural communities.
• suburban communities.