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

How did the law described in this passage benefit Americans?
A. It provided support for people who could no longer work.
B. It put Americans to work rebuilding the country’s infrastructure.
C. It offered temporary relief for people who became unemployed.
D. It gave workers the right to form unions and bargain collectively.