The Social Security System Was Founded

question 133

Multiple Choice

The Social Security system was founded

• A) during the Civil War, to pay pensions for veterans.
• B) during the last years of the nineteenth century, as people who had once depended on having a family farm found themselves without a means of support.
• C) as the United States began to recover from the Great Depression.
• D) in response to concerns that arose during the high inflation of the 1970s.

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