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

What resulted from the passage of this law?

Americans’ general welfare would now be provided for by the US government.
The US government created jobs for eight million Americans.
Reforms were put in place to prevent future stock market crashes.
All workers received immediate relief during the Great Depression.