Milestone 2 questions history

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1. In four or five sentences, describe one major trend of the historical period that relates to the New Deal and the Social Security Act

2. In four or five sentences, describe another major trend that relates to the New Deal and the Social Security Act

3. In a paragraph, explain the historical significance of these trends in general and of the New Deal and the Social Security Act in particular.

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)