The Social Security system was founded

A. as the United States began to recover from the Great Depression.
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. during the Civil War, to pay pensions for veterans.
D. in response to concerns that arose during the high inflation of the 1970s.


Answer: A

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