Historical Event : The Great Depression and the New Deal
Research question: To what extent did New Deal legislation represent a change in American government?
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Primary Sources
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Secondary Sources
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FDR's Speech on Signing the Social Security Act (1:55)
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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.
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Transcript of the Social Security Act (1935)
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Jill S. Quadagno, "Welfare Capitalism and the Social Security Act of 1935," American Sociological Review 49, no. 5 (1984): 632-47.
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Alf Landon Opposes the Social Security Act (1936)
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Helvering v. Davis (1936)
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