Wk3 5.22 History Questions

1. When Franklin Roosevelt describes the Social Security Act as a “cornerstone,” what kind of trend is he most likely anticipating?

2. Prior to the Great Depression, what was the trend in thinking about the relationship between welfare and the free market?

3. According to Quadagno, what is the trend among state governments with regard to state pension programs in the 1920s?

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)