How did the law described in this passage benefit Americans?
Read the passage from a statement given by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Today a hope of many years' standing is in large
part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred
years, with its startling industrial changes, has
tended more and more to make life insecure. Young
people have come to wonder what would be their
lot when they came to old age. The man with a job
has wondered how long the job would last.
-Presidential statement on signing the Social
Security Act,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
August 14, 1935
O It provided support for people who could no longer
work.
o It put Americans to work rebuilding the country's
infrastructure.
It offered temporary relief for people who became
unemployed.
O It gave workers the right to form unions and bargain
collectively