Thesis Statement and Event Description

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Research question: To what extent did New Deal legislation represent a change in American government?

Primary Sources	Secondary Sources
FDR's Speech on Signing the Social Security Act (1:55)	Nancy E. Rose, “Work Relief in the 1930s and the Origins of the Social Security Act,” Social Service Review 63, no. 1 (1989): 63–91.
Transcript of the Social Security Act (1935)	Jill S. Quadagno, “Welfare Capitalism and the Social Security Act of 1935,” American Sociological Review 49, no. 5 (1984): 632–47.
Alf Landon Opposes the Social Security Act (1936)
Helvering v. Davis (1936)