The Social Security Act

Question 1

What it part of FDR’s first or second New Deal

Answer 1

Second; it was the center piece of FDR’s Second New Deal

Question 2

What year was the Social Security Act

Answer 2

1935

Question 3

It embodied Roosevelt’s conviction…

Answer 3

that national government had the responsibility to ensure material well-being of ordinary Americans.

Question 4

What did the Social security Act do?

Answer 4

It created a system of unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and aid to the disabled poor, and families with dependent children.

Question 5

What did this begin?

Answer 5

launched the American version of the welfare state

Question 6

______benefits system begins

Answer 6

permanent benefits instead of temporarily relief.

Question 7

Mainly excluded who?

Answer 7

agricultural and Domestic workers based on contribution. As well as blacks in order to appease Southern Democrats.

Question 8

How does the welfare state in America compare to that in with similar programs in Europe?

Answer 8

Americans welfare state has always been far more decentralized, involved lower levels of public spending, and covered fewer citizens.